Lots of cute Digimon lately...
Aug. 28th, 2026 12:08 pmA quick update on the skin condition, the stuff on my hand (where it all started, or at least where I first noticed it) seems to be clearly up. The original bumps up and down my middle finger are completely gone, and some other early spots are almost completely gone, too. Also, my hand hasn't itched in a few days now that I think about it?
The legs seem to be the worst though. If anything, it might be getting worse there? But they also appeared last. So IDK, maybe it will all go away... soon enough?????? I still feel I should probably schedule an appointment and then if it clears up I could either cancel it or just go and talk about it?
Anyway, Digital Monster Color!!
( lots of pictures )
The legs seem to be the worst though. If anything, it might be getting worse there? But they also appeared last. So IDK, maybe it will all go away... soon enough?????? I still feel I should probably schedule an appointment and then if it clears up I could either cancel it or just go and talk about it?
Anyway, Digital Monster Color!!
( lots of pictures )
Epic Astro Story
Aug. 25th, 2026 03:24 amSo, I finished Epic Astro Story for the first time. I wasn't really sure what to think at first, as the game is deceptively simple-looking, but as you go, you uncover quite a bit of depth.
This is the second Kairosoft game in original release order on Steam, the first being Game Dev Story, so I was expecting the game to have the same simplicity as Game Dev Story and turn into a slog as the game went on.
If you overspend your money, you can end up having to sit and wait to generate some more, but that's something you can avoid with proper management. Otherwise, there seems to be a lot to do, and I was continually surprised with new things unlocking as I went.
At one point, you had to build a bridge to advance, but I didn't understand where I could build it, and I thought I had to do something else before I could progress... but I was just clicking in the wrong spot lol.
The planet-building aspect of the game already makes it quite more interesting than GDS, as there's a whole layout management part of the game, while GDS had nothing of the sort. I don't even think the order the workers sat in the chairs mattered in that one...
GDS is also quite linear in how you progress in the game. Basically just keep making games, make money from them, and then make more. In EAS, however, a lot of the systems play off one another, so trying to 'route' the game will be really fun, I think.
I think the most fun part of Kairosoft games is rough routing. The games basically continually play toward a deadline, and when you reach it, you get scored based on your accomplishments throughout the game. The first time, of course, you'll do pretty badly, and then you can replay and try to do better using all the things you learned the first time through.
Now that I'm done, let's look at what aspects the game uses for scoring and talk about some ways to get a higher score:
( Read more... )
This is the second Kairosoft game in original release order on Steam, the first being Game Dev Story, so I was expecting the game to have the same simplicity as Game Dev Story and turn into a slog as the game went on.
If you overspend your money, you can end up having to sit and wait to generate some more, but that's something you can avoid with proper management. Otherwise, there seems to be a lot to do, and I was continually surprised with new things unlocking as I went.
At one point, you had to build a bridge to advance, but I didn't understand where I could build it, and I thought I had to do something else before I could progress... but I was just clicking in the wrong spot lol.
The planet-building aspect of the game already makes it quite more interesting than GDS, as there's a whole layout management part of the game, while GDS had nothing of the sort. I don't even think the order the workers sat in the chairs mattered in that one...
GDS is also quite linear in how you progress in the game. Basically just keep making games, make money from them, and then make more. In EAS, however, a lot of the systems play off one another, so trying to 'route' the game will be really fun, I think.
I think the most fun part of Kairosoft games is rough routing. The games basically continually play toward a deadline, and when you reach it, you get scored based on your accomplishments throughout the game. The first time, of course, you'll do pretty badly, and then you can replay and try to do better using all the things you learned the first time through.
Now that I'm done, let's look at what aspects the game uses for scoring and talk about some ways to get a higher score:
( Read more... )
I got a red tama!
Aug. 24th, 2026 12:36 pmSo, I finally got a red baby to hatch on my Purple Sky!
There he is :D
This... took way longer than necessary because of a lack of understanding of the breeding mechanics.
I was under the impression that you basically just had a set chance of the pairing being a success, which is not how it works. I did know that a happy tama leads to a higher success rate, but there are a few more mechanics I was unaware of.
There is a hidden "predator/prey" relationship between tamas, and if the two tamas you are trying to breed share that relationship, the pairing is guaranteed to fail no matter how the tama was cared for.
But there's also an item called Love Love Ice Cream which guarantees the next pairing attempt will be a success, and this overrides the guaranteed failure of the predator/prey relationship. The other information on this online just says it "increases breeding chance," which doesn't sound like a guaranteed pairing no matter the circumstances.
There was another misconception I had, and this was because I tend to just assume things and don't even try to see if what I assume is wrong, and that was that I thought when you were presented from 4 partner choices from the breeding menu in the lab, you were 'stuck' with those until you attempted one of the pairings. But in reality, the potential partners will just be refreshed with a newly-generated random list of 4 if you back out of the menu and select it again...
This caused extra problems because you can only attempt breeding three times a day from the lab.
I really wanted the red body, so I had to breed with Mendakotchi with my current tama since I was in the water field. There are 16 possible tamas as partners in any particular field, and you only get four choices, so that's a 1/4 chance of Mendakotchi appearing as a potential partner.
And so I was actually pairing with tamas I didn't want and then declining the option to breed so that I could get the list of potential partners to reset in hopes of Mendakotchi appearing in the next set... and then I don't know if Mendakotchi and Kawazutchi have a predator/prey relationship, but every attempt at breeding with Mendakotchi failed, even after I realized I had been wasting my three attempts a day, and was refreshing the menu to get 3 attempts with Mendakotchi.
But yeah, now I can just feed my tama the Love Love Ice Cream and then refresh the list to get Mendakotchi... which after learning all that, I did do that, and my baby happened to inheret the red color from Mendakotchi, so I finally have my red baby! I actually have gone through two other babies that hatched the wrong color in previous generations, too...
So yeah, this took forever when it could have been much easier...
The reason I wanted a red tama is because there is a trophy in the game for raising a tama of every color. Since each newborn tama will inherit its color from either parent, you need to use parents to get the color you want. You can raise a tama from a 'fresh egg' (no known parents) so that it evolves naturally to the color you want since fresh egg tamas will take on the default color of their species (which can be guaranteed through care methods), but this doesn't count toward the trophy for breeding 50 times. Plus if you're wanting to get a certain color on a tama different than an evolution that has that as its default color, or if you just want different eyes on a tama with the default color you want, you'll have to breed for the color.
Anyway, I say all that because that means that knowing which species of tama count as each color is useful information. I did manage to find a list that lists all the color options available in the game as well as which tamas fall under those colors as their default colors, but there are some problems with the way it is presented that make it a little more cumbersome to use than it needs to be.
Because it just lists the colors and then all of the tamas with that default color, if you're looking for the answers to certain questions, that can be difficult to sort through, as you may have to reference other materials, or just be familiar with everything and keep track of a bunch of stuff in your head while you combo through the information in the chart very carefully.
For example, you might want to have a red tama, but not know if there is even a red parent available in your current field. You could look at the chart at all the red tamas available in all fields, but unelss you're very familiar with all the characters and which fields they belong to, you might have to check an evolution chart for each tama listed, or at least the ones you're not sure about, to see if it's available in your field.
Another example is you may want to know what all colors are available in your current field. Right now I'm in the water field, and it only has certain colors available (like all fields). I could look at an evolution chart for a general idea, but some are not clear, as there are multiple shades of many colors that count as different colors like three shades of blue or something that are considered unique colors in the game (and each adult can 'present' these shades differently, it's not like an actual set hex color or something, and some actually look like the others; even the 'grey' color looks blue sometimes to me), and some tamas have multiple colors on their body but only count as a certain color, like Kametchi has a green shell and yellow face, which either seems like it could be its 'primary' color (Kametchi counts as yellow btw).
The chart also has other things that can be kind of hard to understand like it also lists child and young characters which are technically programmed to count as colors, but there is at no point at which these colors are ever relevant. The trophy does not count these toward your color collection, and the child/young color will either be completely overwritten by the color inhereted from the parent, or in the case of a fresh egg, be replaced by the adult's default color. Basically, this is useless information other than to satiate curiosity on what the hidden programmed color label for those tamas are.
So I think I'm going to make my own chart, or maybe just a couple lists, so that you can view this information in a way better suited toward answering questions you would want answered for the sake of choosing or finding partners to breed with. Well honestly, reorganizing the information would be better for pretty much any reason you have for wanting to look that up.
A similar problem arose for me when I was using the wiki to decide what evolution to do next and then keep track of what care I needed to get that evolution, so I created this guide and chart, which I need to update now that the Orange Tropics and White Glacier devices are out. For that one I needed to have like 4 tabs open and constantly cross-reference them, and even on a single tab, I was having to scroll far up and down regularly while making the decision. I later found some charts others had made, but they'd often be missing key information I wanted to know, like how to obtain the specific food items needed for the specific diets, or when I finally did find one that contained all the information, it was kind of scattered around to make the chart look 'cute' and you still had to hunt for the information with your eyes somewhat unintuitively, as well as zoom out to see everything at once, which made actually seeing individual bits of information harder, as an image file cluttered with decoration and aesthetic isn't the best source of raw information, even if it does contain it all in one place.
I also want to do some guides/charts like this for the Uni, like I wanted to make some charts for the DIY stuff there, because the current information is all over the place as well. The information on how to obtain the materials is separate from what recipes use which materials and stuff like that. It would also be nice to have a list of recipes sorted by material, so when you have excess of a material, you can easily see which recipes use that material, and then get more out of your daily walks so you're not just obtaining materials that disappear because you were at max for those. Also some of the information for this that exists online isn't consistent with its terminology, like calling certain things 'rock' in some places and 'stone' in other places, but there are multiple objects in the game that look rock-like but have different names, and they're only presented as image icons in the game for the most part. (I think you can see names for the items, but only by going to try to sell them or something, which is jumping through a ton of menus to confirm a name that might not even be the same one as the guide you're looking at).
But yeah, for the DIY stuff, it would mostly just be for people who want to really 'go hard' and create every single DIY recipe in the game despite there not really being much reason to do so AFAIR.
(As for the state of my 'current' devices beyond the Purple Sky, the Orange Tropics and White Glacier are both ready for a new egg, as I let each Nappatchi on each device die to get a Tama Star after reaching age 30, and the two Digimon Color devices also have recently died as I finally did get Chaosmon and clear the Quest mode on each.)
There he is :D
This... took way longer than necessary because of a lack of understanding of the breeding mechanics.
I was under the impression that you basically just had a set chance of the pairing being a success, which is not how it works. I did know that a happy tama leads to a higher success rate, but there are a few more mechanics I was unaware of.
There is a hidden "predator/prey" relationship between tamas, and if the two tamas you are trying to breed share that relationship, the pairing is guaranteed to fail no matter how the tama was cared for.
But there's also an item called Love Love Ice Cream which guarantees the next pairing attempt will be a success, and this overrides the guaranteed failure of the predator/prey relationship. The other information on this online just says it "increases breeding chance," which doesn't sound like a guaranteed pairing no matter the circumstances.
There was another misconception I had, and this was because I tend to just assume things and don't even try to see if what I assume is wrong, and that was that I thought when you were presented from 4 partner choices from the breeding menu in the lab, you were 'stuck' with those until you attempted one of the pairings. But in reality, the potential partners will just be refreshed with a newly-generated random list of 4 if you back out of the menu and select it again...
This caused extra problems because you can only attempt breeding three times a day from the lab.
I really wanted the red body, so I had to breed with Mendakotchi with my current tama since I was in the water field. There are 16 possible tamas as partners in any particular field, and you only get four choices, so that's a 1/4 chance of Mendakotchi appearing as a potential partner.
And so I was actually pairing with tamas I didn't want and then declining the option to breed so that I could get the list of potential partners to reset in hopes of Mendakotchi appearing in the next set... and then I don't know if Mendakotchi and Kawazutchi have a predator/prey relationship, but every attempt at breeding with Mendakotchi failed, even after I realized I had been wasting my three attempts a day, and was refreshing the menu to get 3 attempts with Mendakotchi.
But yeah, now I can just feed my tama the Love Love Ice Cream and then refresh the list to get Mendakotchi... which after learning all that, I did do that, and my baby happened to inheret the red color from Mendakotchi, so I finally have my red baby! I actually have gone through two other babies that hatched the wrong color in previous generations, too...
So yeah, this took forever when it could have been much easier...
The reason I wanted a red tama is because there is a trophy in the game for raising a tama of every color. Since each newborn tama will inherit its color from either parent, you need to use parents to get the color you want. You can raise a tama from a 'fresh egg' (no known parents) so that it evolves naturally to the color you want since fresh egg tamas will take on the default color of their species (which can be guaranteed through care methods), but this doesn't count toward the trophy for breeding 50 times. Plus if you're wanting to get a certain color on a tama different than an evolution that has that as its default color, or if you just want different eyes on a tama with the default color you want, you'll have to breed for the color.
Anyway, I say all that because that means that knowing which species of tama count as each color is useful information. I did manage to find a list that lists all the color options available in the game as well as which tamas fall under those colors as their default colors, but there are some problems with the way it is presented that make it a little more cumbersome to use than it needs to be.
Because it just lists the colors and then all of the tamas with that default color, if you're looking for the answers to certain questions, that can be difficult to sort through, as you may have to reference other materials, or just be familiar with everything and keep track of a bunch of stuff in your head while you combo through the information in the chart very carefully.
For example, you might want to have a red tama, but not know if there is even a red parent available in your current field. You could look at the chart at all the red tamas available in all fields, but unelss you're very familiar with all the characters and which fields they belong to, you might have to check an evolution chart for each tama listed, or at least the ones you're not sure about, to see if it's available in your field.
Another example is you may want to know what all colors are available in your current field. Right now I'm in the water field, and it only has certain colors available (like all fields). I could look at an evolution chart for a general idea, but some are not clear, as there are multiple shades of many colors that count as different colors like three shades of blue or something that are considered unique colors in the game (and each adult can 'present' these shades differently, it's not like an actual set hex color or something, and some actually look like the others; even the 'grey' color looks blue sometimes to me), and some tamas have multiple colors on their body but only count as a certain color, like Kametchi has a green shell and yellow face, which either seems like it could be its 'primary' color (Kametchi counts as yellow btw).
The chart also has other things that can be kind of hard to understand like it also lists child and young characters which are technically programmed to count as colors, but there is at no point at which these colors are ever relevant. The trophy does not count these toward your color collection, and the child/young color will either be completely overwritten by the color inhereted from the parent, or in the case of a fresh egg, be replaced by the adult's default color. Basically, this is useless information other than to satiate curiosity on what the hidden programmed color label for those tamas are.
So I think I'm going to make my own chart, or maybe just a couple lists, so that you can view this information in a way better suited toward answering questions you would want answered for the sake of choosing or finding partners to breed with. Well honestly, reorganizing the information would be better for pretty much any reason you have for wanting to look that up.
A similar problem arose for me when I was using the wiki to decide what evolution to do next and then keep track of what care I needed to get that evolution, so I created this guide and chart, which I need to update now that the Orange Tropics and White Glacier devices are out. For that one I needed to have like 4 tabs open and constantly cross-reference them, and even on a single tab, I was having to scroll far up and down regularly while making the decision. I later found some charts others had made, but they'd often be missing key information I wanted to know, like how to obtain the specific food items needed for the specific diets, or when I finally did find one that contained all the information, it was kind of scattered around to make the chart look 'cute' and you still had to hunt for the information with your eyes somewhat unintuitively, as well as zoom out to see everything at once, which made actually seeing individual bits of information harder, as an image file cluttered with decoration and aesthetic isn't the best source of raw information, even if it does contain it all in one place.
I also want to do some guides/charts like this for the Uni, like I wanted to make some charts for the DIY stuff there, because the current information is all over the place as well. The information on how to obtain the materials is separate from what recipes use which materials and stuff like that. It would also be nice to have a list of recipes sorted by material, so when you have excess of a material, you can easily see which recipes use that material, and then get more out of your daily walks so you're not just obtaining materials that disappear because you were at max for those. Also some of the information for this that exists online isn't consistent with its terminology, like calling certain things 'rock' in some places and 'stone' in other places, but there are multiple objects in the game that look rock-like but have different names, and they're only presented as image icons in the game for the most part. (I think you can see names for the items, but only by going to try to sell them or something, which is jumping through a ton of menus to confirm a name that might not even be the same one as the guide you're looking at).
But yeah, for the DIY stuff, it would mostly just be for people who want to really 'go hard' and create every single DIY recipe in the game despite there not really being much reason to do so AFAIR.
(As for the state of my 'current' devices beyond the Purple Sky, the Orange Tropics and White Glacier are both ready for a new egg, as I let each Nappatchi on each device die to get a Tama Star after reaching age 30, and the two Digimon Color devices also have recently died as I finally did get Chaosmon and clear the Quest mode on each.)
sensory hell
Aug. 22nd, 2026 10:03 pmSo I am still having trouble with the weird rash? thing, I don't even think it's related to bites anymore. It's hard to even say if it's getting better; it's just... changing. Some aspects are better, some aspects are worse, though it certainly isn't 'clearing up' so I guess not getting better. But not necessarily worse? Dont' feel like describing more.
Anyway, I have discovered that the discomfort of using lotion (like regular body lotion) is less miserable than the discomfort of being super itchy, so I've been doing lotion (but only when I can't take the itchy). If you don't know, I absolutely hate lotion. It is one of the grossest, most uncomfortable things ever to me.
So I put some on my legs a bit earlier, because they were getting too itchy. like... kinda all over the legs, so I put a lot... like from knees to a bit above my socks, front and back. And then I discovered that there is somehow and even WORSE feeling than having lotion on... it's... having lotion on with your clothes touching it. Because I put my pants back on.
I felt like I couldn't walk lol. But I did and somehow that felt even worse but I just erally wanted to make it to the kitchen because that was my next destination. I sat for a bit. And I thought... maybe if I eat my dinner (that was the reason I was going to kitchen next anyway) it will distract from this horrible feeling.
That kind of thing doesn't always work. Sometimes one stimulus CAN distract from another. I've discovered this works for me in some ways, like if i have a pain on a certain part of my body, I can like... cause another (but less difficult) pain somewhere else and overall the total pain seems to be better??? I know, it seems weird... But other times, it actually is worse. Like trying to play music while showering to distract from the discomfort that comes with showering actually makes me feel overwhelmed and then the music AND the water are both causing me discomfort. (I've recently learned that showering in the dark helps me because light is one fewer stimulus to worry about.
ANYWAY IT DIDN'T WORK.
Firstly, I forgot that my dinner was what it was. I knew it was leftover Chinese takeout, but I forgot I got a dish with a mix of crunchy vegetables. It was part of my mission to try All The Things, but ... it really was not good. I mean all the parts would be good on their own, and the Kung Pao sauce was great, but eating lots of small crunchy things at once was really unpleasant, especially since they were mixed types of crunchy (carrot, celery, cashew, onion).
I could have separated everything and then eaten all of one thing at once but I don' tknow if it would be more helpful. It would just be uncomfortable and unsatisfying in a different way lmao. Plus that would be a lot of different things to go through and that's a LOT of transitions. Just eating them in combo bites at least makes it all 'one expeirence' and not feel like a transition??? lol.
ANYWAY LOOK I decided to eat it that way and it was still uncomfortable, and I ended up with leftovers yay.
So now I have ot eat that. Well, the legs and lotion thing. Let's distract, right??? But I realized the food was going to be also a bad sensory experience... so I thought maybe it would be like the pain thing where one painful thing would make me not focus on the other painful thing, but since the one is controlled...
well, it didn't work. I ended up just feeling so overwhelmed I spit it out and cried lol. Recently I was talking with Dens about how when I was in college, for one school year I ate the same burrito for every meal every single day. Not a variety of burritos from the same place or something, the exact same burrito prepared the same way every time lmao. When I tell anyone this they think I'm some kind of loonie, but look, knowing exactly what to expect every single time helps avoid situaitons like this.
Also I know some people don't like to try new foods because running into something like this can be overwhelming, so... yeah, you'd want to avoid that. Makes sense to me. I do really like to try new foods but I accept that it comes with risks like this and am willing to deal with those consequences when they arise.
But yeah idk sometimes I really do just want to like... do the same one thing forever in all aspects... it would actually be really nice to just have a single change of clothes (multiple copies of each article would be fine to make laundry easier), just listen to one song, just eat one food, etc. I do think some of those would get tiresome (like, eventually I would want to listen to antoher song LOL but I think the food/clothes thing would be fine)
I remember when I was a kid, my mom told me about my dad's "freak" friend and how "weird" and "creepy" he was. His "creepy" traits were that he wore the same thing repeatedly and stuff like that. One of the habits she told me about was that he had a collection of music (casettes) and he would listen to each one in a certain order, and then go back to the first one and listen again, and those were the only things he ever listened to, and always in that order. And yeah it was a lot of little things like that. Weird? Sure, I guess. Creepy? Not seeing it. But I remember when she would talk about him, I felt weird because she was talking about it so negatively but... all of those things sounded really nice? Like how awesome would it be to not have to wear different things? You would always know exactly how it would fit and feel and look and you wouldn't have to stress about making the choice... it sounds great. And I don't really know WHY the music thing sounded appealing, but it did lol. (Also probably the one that seemed most predictable that someone woudl find it "bad" was that he only bathed once a month on a set schedule... but as a kid who hated bathing that sounded great too hahahaha. Now I have mixed feelings after having basically never properly bathed for like 30 years and trying to fix that, avoid all the discomfort of bathing does sound great, but I do have quite a few problems that are also uncomfortbale from not bathing)
IDK where this is going and I am still kind of sad stressed lol. I was mostly just typing this to 'wait out' the lotion feeling so I could eat, and that's good now I think. I did have to like... wait a bit to calm down after trying to take a bite of the food the first time though lol. Like before i could even write thi.s
OK good night. maybe more rants later
Anyway, I have discovered that the discomfort of using lotion (like regular body lotion) is less miserable than the discomfort of being super itchy, so I've been doing lotion (but only when I can't take the itchy). If you don't know, I absolutely hate lotion. It is one of the grossest, most uncomfortable things ever to me.
So I put some on my legs a bit earlier, because they were getting too itchy. like... kinda all over the legs, so I put a lot... like from knees to a bit above my socks, front and back. And then I discovered that there is somehow and even WORSE feeling than having lotion on... it's... having lotion on with your clothes touching it. Because I put my pants back on.
I felt like I couldn't walk lol. But I did and somehow that felt even worse but I just erally wanted to make it to the kitchen because that was my next destination. I sat for a bit. And I thought... maybe if I eat my dinner (that was the reason I was going to kitchen next anyway) it will distract from this horrible feeling.
That kind of thing doesn't always work. Sometimes one stimulus CAN distract from another. I've discovered this works for me in some ways, like if i have a pain on a certain part of my body, I can like... cause another (but less difficult) pain somewhere else and overall the total pain seems to be better??? I know, it seems weird... But other times, it actually is worse. Like trying to play music while showering to distract from the discomfort that comes with showering actually makes me feel overwhelmed and then the music AND the water are both causing me discomfort. (I've recently learned that showering in the dark helps me because light is one fewer stimulus to worry about.
ANYWAY IT DIDN'T WORK.
Firstly, I forgot that my dinner was what it was. I knew it was leftover Chinese takeout, but I forgot I got a dish with a mix of crunchy vegetables. It was part of my mission to try All The Things, but ... it really was not good. I mean all the parts would be good on their own, and the Kung Pao sauce was great, but eating lots of small crunchy things at once was really unpleasant, especially since they were mixed types of crunchy (carrot, celery, cashew, onion).
I could have separated everything and then eaten all of one thing at once but I don' tknow if it would be more helpful. It would just be uncomfortable and unsatisfying in a different way lmao. Plus that would be a lot of different things to go through and that's a LOT of transitions. Just eating them in combo bites at least makes it all 'one expeirence' and not feel like a transition??? lol.
ANYWAY LOOK I decided to eat it that way and it was still uncomfortable, and I ended up with leftovers yay.
So now I have ot eat that. Well, the legs and lotion thing. Let's distract, right??? But I realized the food was going to be also a bad sensory experience... so I thought maybe it would be like the pain thing where one painful thing would make me not focus on the other painful thing, but since the one is controlled...
well, it didn't work. I ended up just feeling so overwhelmed I spit it out and cried lol. Recently I was talking with Dens about how when I was in college, for one school year I ate the same burrito for every meal every single day. Not a variety of burritos from the same place or something, the exact same burrito prepared the same way every time lmao. When I tell anyone this they think I'm some kind of loonie, but look, knowing exactly what to expect every single time helps avoid situaitons like this.
Also I know some people don't like to try new foods because running into something like this can be overwhelming, so... yeah, you'd want to avoid that. Makes sense to me. I do really like to try new foods but I accept that it comes with risks like this and am willing to deal with those consequences when they arise.
But yeah idk sometimes I really do just want to like... do the same one thing forever in all aspects... it would actually be really nice to just have a single change of clothes (multiple copies of each article would be fine to make laundry easier), just listen to one song, just eat one food, etc. I do think some of those would get tiresome (like, eventually I would want to listen to antoher song LOL but I think the food/clothes thing would be fine)
I remember when I was a kid, my mom told me about my dad's "freak" friend and how "weird" and "creepy" he was. His "creepy" traits were that he wore the same thing repeatedly and stuff like that. One of the habits she told me about was that he had a collection of music (casettes) and he would listen to each one in a certain order, and then go back to the first one and listen again, and those were the only things he ever listened to, and always in that order. And yeah it was a lot of little things like that. Weird? Sure, I guess. Creepy? Not seeing it. But I remember when she would talk about him, I felt weird because she was talking about it so negatively but... all of those things sounded really nice? Like how awesome would it be to not have to wear different things? You would always know exactly how it would fit and feel and look and you wouldn't have to stress about making the choice... it sounds great. And I don't really know WHY the music thing sounded appealing, but it did lol. (Also probably the one that seemed most predictable that someone woudl find it "bad" was that he only bathed once a month on a set schedule... but as a kid who hated bathing that sounded great too hahahaha. Now I have mixed feelings after having basically never properly bathed for like 30 years and trying to fix that, avoid all the discomfort of bathing does sound great, but I do have quite a few problems that are also uncomfortbale from not bathing)
IDK where this is going and I am still kind of sad stressed lol. I was mostly just typing this to 'wait out' the lotion feeling so I could eat, and that's good now I think. I did have to like... wait a bit to calm down after trying to take a bite of the food the first time though lol. Like before i could even write thi.s
OK good night. maybe more rants later
I wrote a little (and by that I mean long) self-hate post but I deleted it even :D I guess it was just good to get it out at least.
Anywayyyyy my weird whatever-it-is rash is still persisting. I think it's been over 2 weeks now? And some parts are getting worse. There are several small bumps, most notably on the back of my hand, and they have stayed the entire time and do not show any signs of healing. Meanwhile, a few spots have changed a bit... one of the spots on my hand has gotten flatter and spread much wider, and is scaly sometimes. I don't think it's from scratching because I'm being really good about that.
I have two on my left upper arm that also have done that.
And then randomly a new spot will show up here and there.
I feel like if they were some kind of insect bites, the earlier ones would have mostly cleared up, but they just have stayed the same. And I don't know why some would change after a while and grow and become scaly. Even bed bug bites are only supposed to last 2 weeks, and over years ago we had a very bad infestation of bed bugs and I reacted VERY differently to them. I guess my reaction could change over time, but idk...
Actually, it hasn't been a whole 2 weeks now that I think about it...? But getting close. If I think of the timeline, last week on Wednesday I saw the PCP which was for the chest thing, but I had made the appointment the Friday before that. I think I did have the single 'bite' on my knuckle around that time, but the others hadn't shown up yet, and started to show up somewhat rapidly over the weekend. And it was that Monday or Tuesday that I had the weird panic and threw out my shirt lmao. So even since the very first bump, it could have been about 2 weeks max, and about more like 1.5 weeks since it was a alarming to me.
The doctor did say to 'keep an eye on it' and well, I have, and it's not any better lmao, and kind of a little worse.
The itching definitely has gotten worse, though. I'm trying to keep cortisone on my right hand at least, but I don't really know what to do about random itching everywhere else? I'm not even sure where all the spots are and some random ones seem new? Or maybe I didn't notice before because they weren't itching before? Also, the itching usually starts again pretty quickly, like the effect of the cortisone gel is not lasting very long?
I used some AI picture-reading thingy and it suggests just contact dermatitis, which... would kind of make sense for the hand since I was touching lots of strange things in the garden but... not the rest of the body which I kept well-covered? There could be something on my clothes I guess... we did change detergent types a while ago (just from one variation of the same brand to another) but I feel like I would have noticed something by now? But ... I also rarely change clothes so maybe I'm just now getting to the clothes that were washed with it lmao.
IDK, it is frustrating.
(Also, IDK if this is related, but I've been feeling 'greasy' recently?? Like even after bathing idk?? I do kind of want to work more on general bathing hygeine and skincare stuff tbh. I recently realized I could wash my feet more easily if I sat in the shower seat and crossed my leg over the other to reach my foot more easily instead of trying to bend over like I was tying shoes...? DON'T ASK HOW I DIDN'T REALIZE BEFORE, OK?)
I kind of just want to chill and do something simple tonight and not STUDY THINGS, but I'm also kind of enjoying studying things and want to do more??? I saw a few things suggesting ways to practice 'drawing from the shoulder' which is... fairly mindless and could probably be relaxing, and I could listen to podcasts or music while I did it, which feels "productive," though my "need" to feel "productive" constantly is not really helpful and maybe I should just take a break from feeding it and play Epic Astro Story or something.
I can't remember if I mentioned this or if it was in the hate post, but a friend and I had a long nostalgia chat about Sonic Adventure 2 and now I kinda wanna play it. It for a long time was my longest-played game on Steam clocking in just a bit under 300 hours (until that record was smashed by Hello Kitty Island Adventure that clocked around 450). SA2 doesn't have cloud save on Steam, so I lost that 300-hour file, however. But I don't mind at all replaying, tbh. It's a very fun game, even if super janky. And it will be fun to build up the Chao Garden again. I honestly really like that whole 'blank slate' feel of starting games anew, really.
In my lost data, I actually had each garden full of All-S Chao, and one of each of the 'special' ones that was like a 'parent' or 'master' of each garden lol. I named those ones Light, Wily, and Cossack. Most of those 300 hours were spent just playing in the Chao Garden or gathering the... light stick things (Chaos Drives? I forget what they are called) or animals to give to the Chao. I didn't even get all the emblems. I just needed the rest of the A ranks, though. I think I got all of them with at least Eggman and Sonic.
But there are some REALLY dumb A ranks. Like the Tails car thing... Actually that makes me not even want to play at all just thinking about it LOLL
Oh, and I reached Chimairamon and Megadramon...! Just one more evolution and I can Jogress! I don't have to watch out for different evolution paths anymore, just keep my mistakes low (I can only afford ONE lol) and I'm good! I already got all the battles needed.
Anywayyyyy my weird whatever-it-is rash is still persisting. I think it's been over 2 weeks now? And some parts are getting worse. There are several small bumps, most notably on the back of my hand, and they have stayed the entire time and do not show any signs of healing. Meanwhile, a few spots have changed a bit... one of the spots on my hand has gotten flatter and spread much wider, and is scaly sometimes. I don't think it's from scratching because I'm being really good about that.
I have two on my left upper arm that also have done that.
And then randomly a new spot will show up here and there.
I feel like if they were some kind of insect bites, the earlier ones would have mostly cleared up, but they just have stayed the same. And I don't know why some would change after a while and grow and become scaly. Even bed bug bites are only supposed to last 2 weeks, and over years ago we had a very bad infestation of bed bugs and I reacted VERY differently to them. I guess my reaction could change over time, but idk...
Actually, it hasn't been a whole 2 weeks now that I think about it...? But getting close. If I think of the timeline, last week on Wednesday I saw the PCP which was for the chest thing, but I had made the appointment the Friday before that. I think I did have the single 'bite' on my knuckle around that time, but the others hadn't shown up yet, and started to show up somewhat rapidly over the weekend. And it was that Monday or Tuesday that I had the weird panic and threw out my shirt lmao. So even since the very first bump, it could have been about 2 weeks max, and about more like 1.5 weeks since it was a alarming to me.
The doctor did say to 'keep an eye on it' and well, I have, and it's not any better lmao, and kind of a little worse.
The itching definitely has gotten worse, though. I'm trying to keep cortisone on my right hand at least, but I don't really know what to do about random itching everywhere else? I'm not even sure where all the spots are and some random ones seem new? Or maybe I didn't notice before because they weren't itching before? Also, the itching usually starts again pretty quickly, like the effect of the cortisone gel is not lasting very long?
I used some AI picture-reading thingy and it suggests just contact dermatitis, which... would kind of make sense for the hand since I was touching lots of strange things in the garden but... not the rest of the body which I kept well-covered? There could be something on my clothes I guess... we did change detergent types a while ago (just from one variation of the same brand to another) but I feel like I would have noticed something by now? But ... I also rarely change clothes so maybe I'm just now getting to the clothes that were washed with it lmao.
IDK, it is frustrating.
(Also, IDK if this is related, but I've been feeling 'greasy' recently?? Like even after bathing idk?? I do kind of want to work more on general bathing hygeine and skincare stuff tbh. I recently realized I could wash my feet more easily if I sat in the shower seat and crossed my leg over the other to reach my foot more easily instead of trying to bend over like I was tying shoes...? DON'T ASK HOW I DIDN'T REALIZE BEFORE, OK?)
I kind of just want to chill and do something simple tonight and not STUDY THINGS, but I'm also kind of enjoying studying things and want to do more??? I saw a few things suggesting ways to practice 'drawing from the shoulder' which is... fairly mindless and could probably be relaxing, and I could listen to podcasts or music while I did it, which feels "productive," though my "need" to feel "productive" constantly is not really helpful and maybe I should just take a break from feeding it and play Epic Astro Story or something.
I can't remember if I mentioned this or if it was in the hate post, but a friend and I had a long nostalgia chat about Sonic Adventure 2 and now I kinda wanna play it. It for a long time was my longest-played game on Steam clocking in just a bit under 300 hours (until that record was smashed by Hello Kitty Island Adventure that clocked around 450). SA2 doesn't have cloud save on Steam, so I lost that 300-hour file, however. But I don't mind at all replaying, tbh. It's a very fun game, even if super janky. And it will be fun to build up the Chao Garden again. I honestly really like that whole 'blank slate' feel of starting games anew, really.
In my lost data, I actually had each garden full of All-S Chao, and one of each of the 'special' ones that was like a 'parent' or 'master' of each garden lol. I named those ones Light, Wily, and Cossack. Most of those 300 hours were spent just playing in the Chao Garden or gathering the... light stick things (Chaos Drives? I forget what they are called) or animals to give to the Chao. I didn't even get all the emblems. I just needed the rest of the A ranks, though. I think I got all of them with at least Eggman and Sonic.
But there are some REALLY dumb A ranks. Like the Tails car thing... Actually that makes me not even want to play at all just thinking about it LOLL
Oh, and I reached Chimairamon and Megadramon...! Just one more evolution and I can Jogress! I don't have to watch out for different evolution paths anymore, just keep my mistakes low (I can only afford ONE lol) and I'm good! I already got all the battles needed.
So, instead of fighting on reddit where I might get more replies that anger me, I'm going to just rant about this here where there's a smaller chance of that, plus I respect the 3 people who read this and wouldn't be so mad if they argued, plus I trust you all to be more mature about it than your average reddit user.
Anyway, this one is about companies owning IPs, and what they do with them.
If you don't know, for a very brief explanation, back in the early 2010s, Marvelous (publisher of Bokujo Monogatari, formerly localized as Harvest Moon) decided to start using their own localization house (XSEED) to localize the series, and dropped Natsume (the previous localization company) as their partner. Natsume, however, retained the rights to the name "Harvest Moon" and then started developing their own series under that name that was no longer related to the ongoing Bokujo Monogatari.
Natsume also holds the rights to their localization scripts and has partial publishing rights to old games that they did the localization and western publishing for. People will vehemently argue that they don't, despite Natsume claiming they do in various places, and the fact that several ports of old games have been published by Natsume after the split. Natsume even has control over parts of the programming, as they are the ones that maintain patching the ports and even programmed the trophy support on the ports on PSN.
So yeah, with that misinformation out of the way, people still are upset and "sickened" that Natsume uses the old games they localized in their current marketing, like listing the old games alongside their new ones "as if they are all one series."
And people are so, so nasty about this, to the point of personally attacking people who so much as say they enjoyed a game made by Natsume, and flooding Natsume's socials with hate comments, and wording everything in the most foul way possible... like anti-Natsume people are as messed up as the worst of the anti-AI crowd with the way they treat other people and talk about the issue.
Yet... it's not like Marvelous developed the old games either...? The creatives behind the original games have been gone from Marvelous since 2010. But Marvelous, as a corporate entity... retained the rights to the name "Bokujo Monogatari" in the exact same way that Natsume retained the rights to the name "Harvest Moon." And they list games that they had nothing to do with, like the first Super Famicom title, and all the games that the old creatives made... right alongside their new games that have nothing to do with the old ones.
The only difference is that Marvelous also holds the rights to the intellectual property of the series. And somehow, people think this makes what Marvelous is doing somehow different from what Natsume is doing. Both of them are doing what they do through legal channels, Marvelous just has more control over using things like character designs and such again... which they had 0 hand in actually creating themselves.
Like, companies holding IP where the creatives no longer interact is just... corpo suits exploiting someone else's creations...? It's not any different than what Natsume is doing; Marvelous just is able to exploit more things through legal channels, but it still all comes down to using someone else's creativity regardless of how the creator feels about it simply because a capitalist entity holds "rights" to it.
As far as manipulating fans and exploiting nostalgia and all that, they're doing the same things. It has nothing at all to do with the creative process or the original creator's intent. It's just using legal rights to pretend like they had something to do with it, using their creations right alongside their own, unrelated, creations, making people think it's "all the same." People are being "fooled" by Marvelous in the same way people are being "fooled" by Natsume.
Like, when it comes to creativity... is legal control all that matters to people? Surely it's not -- people don't like post-Roddenberry Star Trek, people don't like Disney's Star Wars, people will cry for hours that the Nickelodeon Ninja Turtles is exploitation... yet all of these are cases where a company is just using the intellectual property that they have the legal rights to. They're doing exactly what Marvelous is doing -- making up their own stuff outside of the original creators' intentions (and the quality and direction of Bokujo Monogatari definitely did change after Wada and friends left the company, something even the anti-Natsume crowd seems to recognize, so it's not like Marvelous is maintaining his vision in a way that is meaningful to the fans or anything).
So why are people so vehemently defending Marvelous as some kind of holy bastion of justice when it comes to the way they treat Bokujo Monogatari when they're just doing exactly what Natsume, Disney, Paramount, and Nickelodeon are doing with their franchises? Is it just because people are so "upset" with Natsume doing the exact same thing as Marvelous? They scramble to find the ONLY difference between what Natsume and Marvelous are doing, and that basically comes down to the ownership of the IP (which has nothing to do with the original creation anyway), maybe?
Anyway, it's just super frustrating how people treat the situation, like being anti-Natsume and defending every action of Marvelous no matter how scummy puts you on some kind of moral high ground or something. And that Natsume and even Natsume fans are somehow deserving of all the hate in the universe. When they are literally just doing the same thing as Marvelous but with their own title lol.
Sooo that is my rant lol.
Anyway, this one is about companies owning IPs, and what they do with them.
If you don't know, for a very brief explanation, back in the early 2010s, Marvelous (publisher of Bokujo Monogatari, formerly localized as Harvest Moon) decided to start using their own localization house (XSEED) to localize the series, and dropped Natsume (the previous localization company) as their partner. Natsume, however, retained the rights to the name "Harvest Moon" and then started developing their own series under that name that was no longer related to the ongoing Bokujo Monogatari.
Natsume also holds the rights to their localization scripts and has partial publishing rights to old games that they did the localization and western publishing for. People will vehemently argue that they don't, despite Natsume claiming they do in various places, and the fact that several ports of old games have been published by Natsume after the split. Natsume even has control over parts of the programming, as they are the ones that maintain patching the ports and even programmed the trophy support on the ports on PSN.
So yeah, with that misinformation out of the way, people still are upset and "sickened" that Natsume uses the old games they localized in their current marketing, like listing the old games alongside their new ones "as if they are all one series."
And people are so, so nasty about this, to the point of personally attacking people who so much as say they enjoyed a game made by Natsume, and flooding Natsume's socials with hate comments, and wording everything in the most foul way possible... like anti-Natsume people are as messed up as the worst of the anti-AI crowd with the way they treat other people and talk about the issue.
Yet... it's not like Marvelous developed the old games either...? The creatives behind the original games have been gone from Marvelous since 2010. But Marvelous, as a corporate entity... retained the rights to the name "Bokujo Monogatari" in the exact same way that Natsume retained the rights to the name "Harvest Moon." And they list games that they had nothing to do with, like the first Super Famicom title, and all the games that the old creatives made... right alongside their new games that have nothing to do with the old ones.
The only difference is that Marvelous also holds the rights to the intellectual property of the series. And somehow, people think this makes what Marvelous is doing somehow different from what Natsume is doing. Both of them are doing what they do through legal channels, Marvelous just has more control over using things like character designs and such again... which they had 0 hand in actually creating themselves.
Like, companies holding IP where the creatives no longer interact is just... corpo suits exploiting someone else's creations...? It's not any different than what Natsume is doing; Marvelous just is able to exploit more things through legal channels, but it still all comes down to using someone else's creativity regardless of how the creator feels about it simply because a capitalist entity holds "rights" to it.
As far as manipulating fans and exploiting nostalgia and all that, they're doing the same things. It has nothing at all to do with the creative process or the original creator's intent. It's just using legal rights to pretend like they had something to do with it, using their creations right alongside their own, unrelated, creations, making people think it's "all the same." People are being "fooled" by Marvelous in the same way people are being "fooled" by Natsume.
Like, when it comes to creativity... is legal control all that matters to people? Surely it's not -- people don't like post-Roddenberry Star Trek, people don't like Disney's Star Wars, people will cry for hours that the Nickelodeon Ninja Turtles is exploitation... yet all of these are cases where a company is just using the intellectual property that they have the legal rights to. They're doing exactly what Marvelous is doing -- making up their own stuff outside of the original creators' intentions (and the quality and direction of Bokujo Monogatari definitely did change after Wada and friends left the company, something even the anti-Natsume crowd seems to recognize, so it's not like Marvelous is maintaining his vision in a way that is meaningful to the fans or anything).
So why are people so vehemently defending Marvelous as some kind of holy bastion of justice when it comes to the way they treat Bokujo Monogatari when they're just doing exactly what Natsume, Disney, Paramount, and Nickelodeon are doing with their franchises? Is it just because people are so "upset" with Natsume doing the exact same thing as Marvelous? They scramble to find the ONLY difference between what Natsume and Marvelous are doing, and that basically comes down to the ownership of the IP (which has nothing to do with the original creation anyway), maybe?
Anyway, it's just super frustrating how people treat the situation, like being anti-Natsume and defending every action of Marvelous no matter how scummy puts you on some kind of moral high ground or something. And that Natsume and even Natsume fans are somehow deserving of all the hate in the universe. When they are literally just doing the same thing as Marvelous but with their own title lol.
Sooo that is my rant lol.
Digital Monster Color Chaosmon notes
Aug. 15th, 2026 05:38 pmSo mostly this is just for me, but I'll explain it anyway :D
So I got a traited egg on my Ver 4 YAY. Basically each time a monster dies, there is a chance it leaves behind a 'traited egg,' which basically just means when you hatch your next monster, it will get a boost to its power in battle. Basically, you get a double boost for having your strength hearts filled, which at kyukyokutai stage is 25 bonus points, which is a lot!
And my Ver 4 has not done too much of the quest mode yet, so it'll be nice to have that extra power boost to be able to fight through all the quests despite some type disadvantages on the way, since we'll be meeting lots of opponent monsters.
So I'm going to try to jogress to Chaosmon this time. Basically jogress is just a 'fusion' system where if you have two specific monsters (requiring two different devices), you can jogress them into another monster, with these 'chokyukyokutai' monsters being the strongest possible.
Since I'm only running Ver 3 and Ver 4, there's only one jogress monster available to me, and that's Chaosmon. Chaosmon is obtained through a jogress of BanchoLeomon on Ver 3 and Darkdramon on Ver 4. So I am gonna aim for those this time when I hatch my eggs.
For the Ver 4, getting to Darkdramon is pretty easy. Basically you just have to always take good care of the monster, avoiding mistakes. As long as you do that, you'll get to Darkdramon as long as you fulfill that battles at each stage that needs them. That's it!
For the Ver 3, it's slightly more tricky, but it just comes down to training management. There are actually several paths to get to BanchoLeomon, but I decided to go Ogremon -> Chimairamon -> BanchoLeomon as it seems the least difficult, and I don't want to mess up!
To get to Ogremon, I just need to get to make 3 or fewer mistakes on Patamon. Easy! If I for some reason train 32 or more times (which there would be no reason to even train at all as Patamon), I would get Unimon which can also evolve to Chimairamon, just with a bit different requirements.
From Ogremon, to get to Chimairamon, you have to fulfill 15+ battles with an 80% win rate, but unlike all the kanzentai evolutions on all the other devices, there are training requirements as well. So I just have to make sure to get 32 training sessions in at this point, and from there on out, everything is just fulfilling battles again until BanchoLeomon.
Also, gotta remember they're gonna go to bed at 8PM tonight. I can't let them go to bed too needy, or I'll get too many care mistakes in the morning. But I guess sleep disturbance doesn't matter for any of the evolutions I'm going for, so I could just disturb them...?
Meanwhile on my Tamagotchi Paradises, I'm getting closer and closer to filling out the water field collection, with 11 out of 16 characters raised so far. I just hatched a new egg and it's in the child stage now; my goal is to get it to Amefuratchi, and then I should have the whole Float Young evolution line.
So I got a traited egg on my Ver 4 YAY. Basically each time a monster dies, there is a chance it leaves behind a 'traited egg,' which basically just means when you hatch your next monster, it will get a boost to its power in battle. Basically, you get a double boost for having your strength hearts filled, which at kyukyokutai stage is 25 bonus points, which is a lot!
And my Ver 4 has not done too much of the quest mode yet, so it'll be nice to have that extra power boost to be able to fight through all the quests despite some type disadvantages on the way, since we'll be meeting lots of opponent monsters.
So I'm going to try to jogress to Chaosmon this time. Basically jogress is just a 'fusion' system where if you have two specific monsters (requiring two different devices), you can jogress them into another monster, with these 'chokyukyokutai' monsters being the strongest possible.
Since I'm only running Ver 3 and Ver 4, there's only one jogress monster available to me, and that's Chaosmon. Chaosmon is obtained through a jogress of BanchoLeomon on Ver 3 and Darkdramon on Ver 4. So I am gonna aim for those this time when I hatch my eggs.
For the Ver 4, getting to Darkdramon is pretty easy. Basically you just have to always take good care of the monster, avoiding mistakes. As long as you do that, you'll get to Darkdramon as long as you fulfill that battles at each stage that needs them. That's it!
For the Ver 3, it's slightly more tricky, but it just comes down to training management. There are actually several paths to get to BanchoLeomon, but I decided to go Ogremon -> Chimairamon -> BanchoLeomon as it seems the least difficult, and I don't want to mess up!
To get to Ogremon, I just need to get to make 3 or fewer mistakes on Patamon. Easy! If I for some reason train 32 or more times (which there would be no reason to even train at all as Patamon), I would get Unimon which can also evolve to Chimairamon, just with a bit different requirements.
From Ogremon, to get to Chimairamon, you have to fulfill 15+ battles with an 80% win rate, but unlike all the kanzentai evolutions on all the other devices, there are training requirements as well. So I just have to make sure to get 32 training sessions in at this point, and from there on out, everything is just fulfilling battles again until BanchoLeomon.
Also, gotta remember they're gonna go to bed at 8PM tonight. I can't let them go to bed too needy, or I'll get too many care mistakes in the morning. But I guess sleep disturbance doesn't matter for any of the evolutions I'm going for, so I could just disturb them...?
Meanwhile on my Tamagotchi Paradises, I'm getting closer and closer to filling out the water field collection, with 11 out of 16 characters raised so far. I just hatched a new egg and it's in the child stage now; my goal is to get it to Amefuratchi, and then I should have the whole Float Young evolution line.
thingggsssss
Aug. 15th, 2026 12:43 pmI remember I used to title so many lj entries "Things" lol.
There's a person who has been driving me nuts recently. They are confident wrong about stuff all the time, and even correct people (incl me) when they are the one with the wrong information?? Like, about factual stuff??
But yeah it's making me want to shy away from a certain group but I am so limited in social opportunities at this point anyway that I can't afford it hahaha. I genuinely like this person and enjoy chatting with them but when they do that stuff I just CANNOT.
Today is shower day and I dooooon't wanna do ittttttt. Also I need to wash dishes and wrap meat for the freezer and I don't wanna do that either T_T (I need to wait for some pans to cool before I can either wash those, or make counter space for the meats, so I can't do it right this second anyway).
I was playing Epic Astro Story last night and legit could not figure out how to advance, so i thought maybe the only way was to upgrade my rocket... turns out I needed to build a bridge but there's only ONE TINY LOCATION where the bridge can go and now I'm a little upset, because I just let my people work and aliens visit forever to save up the research points to upgrade the rocket.
And now I spent all those research points T_T but yeah, I got the ability to build bridges and thought it was a bit odd I couldn't seem to place them anywhere... I tried on this river many times and it said bridges can't be placed on that river... but I guess there were TWO LITTLE TILES of the river where it was actually OK to place them...
Now I've unlocked a snowy area and the ability to mine which is pretty cool. The mines don't require farms and seem to produce their own stuff, unlike the farms which also need processing plants to turn the grains into food items (somehow you put corn in the building and entire hamburgers come out and stuff lol)
There do seem to be some little random events, in particular ones where you expedition speed slows down to half speed, where it might change what kind of score you can get, but nothing at all like Game Dev Story where your score seems to be left up almost entirely to random chance with how influential the RNG is in the game.
Dungeon Village, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have much RNG at all...? I think there is RNG in the order you get equipment from blue chests, though, which I guess could drastically influence your score.
I do really like the core concepts of these games, but for a game that's about resource/time management strategy and going for a high score over a time limit... having tons of RNG events that can completely change your score to the point where they outweigh the skill or strategy... it's just frustrating. It's kind of how I love the idea of Pac & Pal but the frequent bonus games where your score is 100% left to RNG having a drastic influence over your final score... it kind of ruins the game for me.
Though I think only really Game Dev Story is at the level of ruining the game with its random events and outcomes. Even moreso than Pac & Pal. But the other games I've played don't seem to have that level. Of course, I've only played Dungeon Village and Epic Astro Story enough to really tell. But Epic Astro Story is the next game in release order that's available on Steam (or even any modern platforms I think?) so maybe they were already 'learning' how to make a more fair game by that, and the rest should be fine...?
I also have decided I think I'm going to work on watching drawing videos in the mornings before lunch. I want to actually try learning drawing again. I did study it in the past but very randomly, and there were not as many good free and easily-accessible resources online back then. I can't remember if I talked about this or not lol. But I foudn some good sites and playlists and etc. I can use.
I also found a show to watch in German called Falk which is about a quirky mustache. It's also in a legal/courtroom setting so probably a lot will be completely lost on me. But it's more just about the input for now anyway. It is on ARD, which is a national German broadcast station, but they have a website where you can stream the stuff for free, though you do need a German connection. Firefox seems to have unlimited VPN for free with German server selectable right now... I'm also doing a free trial of DuckDuckGo's VPN to see how that goes. But DDG is not available on Linux which is a bit of a bummer since I stopped dual-booting and wiped Windows from my laptop in favor of a fresh Mint install. And there would be times it would be nice to watch something on the laptop. I guess in those moments, though, I could just catch up on Korra...?
Anyway, guess I should go do the stupid kitchen things now T_T My Digimon finally both died so I might restart them today to go for the Jogress.
There's a person who has been driving me nuts recently. They are confident wrong about stuff all the time, and even correct people (incl me) when they are the one with the wrong information?? Like, about factual stuff??
But yeah it's making me want to shy away from a certain group but I am so limited in social opportunities at this point anyway that I can't afford it hahaha. I genuinely like this person and enjoy chatting with them but when they do that stuff I just CANNOT.
Today is shower day and I dooooon't wanna do ittttttt. Also I need to wash dishes and wrap meat for the freezer and I don't wanna do that either T_T (I need to wait for some pans to cool before I can either wash those, or make counter space for the meats, so I can't do it right this second anyway).
I was playing Epic Astro Story last night and legit could not figure out how to advance, so i thought maybe the only way was to upgrade my rocket... turns out I needed to build a bridge but there's only ONE TINY LOCATION where the bridge can go and now I'm a little upset, because I just let my people work and aliens visit forever to save up the research points to upgrade the rocket.
And now I spent all those research points T_T but yeah, I got the ability to build bridges and thought it was a bit odd I couldn't seem to place them anywhere... I tried on this river many times and it said bridges can't be placed on that river... but I guess there were TWO LITTLE TILES of the river where it was actually OK to place them...
Now I've unlocked a snowy area and the ability to mine which is pretty cool. The mines don't require farms and seem to produce their own stuff, unlike the farms which also need processing plants to turn the grains into food items (somehow you put corn in the building and entire hamburgers come out and stuff lol)
There do seem to be some little random events, in particular ones where you expedition speed slows down to half speed, where it might change what kind of score you can get, but nothing at all like Game Dev Story where your score seems to be left up almost entirely to random chance with how influential the RNG is in the game.
Dungeon Village, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have much RNG at all...? I think there is RNG in the order you get equipment from blue chests, though, which I guess could drastically influence your score.
I do really like the core concepts of these games, but for a game that's about resource/time management strategy and going for a high score over a time limit... having tons of RNG events that can completely change your score to the point where they outweigh the skill or strategy... it's just frustrating. It's kind of how I love the idea of Pac & Pal but the frequent bonus games where your score is 100% left to RNG having a drastic influence over your final score... it kind of ruins the game for me.
Though I think only really Game Dev Story is at the level of ruining the game with its random events and outcomes. Even moreso than Pac & Pal. But the other games I've played don't seem to have that level. Of course, I've only played Dungeon Village and Epic Astro Story enough to really tell. But Epic Astro Story is the next game in release order that's available on Steam (or even any modern platforms I think?) so maybe they were already 'learning' how to make a more fair game by that, and the rest should be fine...?
I also have decided I think I'm going to work on watching drawing videos in the mornings before lunch. I want to actually try learning drawing again. I did study it in the past but very randomly, and there were not as many good free and easily-accessible resources online back then. I can't remember if I talked about this or not lol. But I foudn some good sites and playlists and etc. I can use.
I also found a show to watch in German called Falk which is about a quirky mustache. It's also in a legal/courtroom setting so probably a lot will be completely lost on me. But it's more just about the input for now anyway. It is on ARD, which is a national German broadcast station, but they have a website where you can stream the stuff for free, though you do need a German connection. Firefox seems to have unlimited VPN for free with German server selectable right now... I'm also doing a free trial of DuckDuckGo's VPN to see how that goes. But DDG is not available on Linux which is a bit of a bummer since I stopped dual-booting and wiped Windows from my laptop in favor of a fresh Mint install. And there would be times it would be nice to watch something on the laptop. I guess in those moments, though, I could just catch up on Korra...?
Anyway, guess I should go do the stupid kitchen things now T_T My Digimon finally both died so I might restart them today to go for the Jogress.
Too many things
Aug. 14th, 2026 04:23 pmSo I was just complaining about how I couldn't decide a thing to do, but now I've kinda decided too many things already??
So, I still am going to continue doing the German thing, which the basic 'study time' each day is very small, but I want to get some kind of input media time in as well, and that takes more time...
Then I'm already pretty deep into Fields of Mistria, as well...
And then yesterday I decided to try to get back into drawing...
And then last night I just RANDOMLY got back into a Kairosoft kick again...
(And don't forget I'm taking care of 3 Tamagotchi and 2 Digimon lol)
But yeah, I actually started up working on my Kairosoft site again, which I basically just... made nothing on it before, but now I'm actually putting together the Dungeon Village pages. I still have to play the game to get some data from it.
A lot of the core data seems to be already compiled and available on either the English-language wiki.gg pages, or on a Japanese wiki (surprisingly the English wiki has more information most of the time...?) but there's some key information missing.
Importantly, the result of gifting items in the game. Presents are a main function of the game, and if you're wanting to maximize your proficiency (which is the entire point of the game), you need to give lots of gifts. But the result of gifts changes based on the job class of the character.
For example, if you give a Magic Lamp to a Farmer or Carpenter, you'll get +5 Satisfaction and +2 work. But if you gave it to a Mage or Monk, you'd get +9 Satisfaction and +6 work. Those 4 points each are huge, especially since you'll be giving a lot of gifts, and those numbers max at 100.
With the items that boost battle stats, the class also makes a difference. A melon will give +12 Max HP to an Adventurer, but +20 Max HP to a Warrior. If you're trying to raise your stats efficiently, it would be way more beneficial to actually change your class to Warrior and then back to Adventurer in this case.
The events also give different boosts based on jobs as well, which I'll have to compile information about those.
Game Dev Story is the same way, with a lot of data being compiled (strangely not all of it is on the wiki despite an old GameFAQs guide existing with most of it), but the requirements to level up each Genre and Type are not documented anywhere. There are SO MANY of these and it's been quite tedious to go through them all, but I'm making decent progress, and it would be really helpful information to have on-hand if you were doing a non-NG+ run.
Also, I did go to the doctor a couple days ago, and we're just "keeping an eye on things," though they did refer me to schedule a sleep study, which was the main thing I wanted. The weird 'infestation' and chest vibration thing are both getting better anyway, so I'm not too worried.
Also I tried stroopwafel today. It's interesting lol. I heated it on top of a cup of tea like suggested, but it made one side steamed/soggy-ish? so it was a bit strange XD But it had a nice overall texture and was sweet without being like... American sugary sweet... so it was pretty good. Definitely something I'd only have now and then just because I'd lose appreciation for it if I was having it all the time I think...?
So, I still am going to continue doing the German thing, which the basic 'study time' each day is very small, but I want to get some kind of input media time in as well, and that takes more time...
Then I'm already pretty deep into Fields of Mistria, as well...
And then yesterday I decided to try to get back into drawing...
And then last night I just RANDOMLY got back into a Kairosoft kick again...
(And don't forget I'm taking care of 3 Tamagotchi and 2 Digimon lol)
But yeah, I actually started up working on my Kairosoft site again, which I basically just... made nothing on it before, but now I'm actually putting together the Dungeon Village pages. I still have to play the game to get some data from it.
A lot of the core data seems to be already compiled and available on either the English-language wiki.gg pages, or on a Japanese wiki (surprisingly the English wiki has more information most of the time...?) but there's some key information missing.
Importantly, the result of gifting items in the game. Presents are a main function of the game, and if you're wanting to maximize your proficiency (which is the entire point of the game), you need to give lots of gifts. But the result of gifts changes based on the job class of the character.
For example, if you give a Magic Lamp to a Farmer or Carpenter, you'll get +5 Satisfaction and +2 work. But if you gave it to a Mage or Monk, you'd get +9 Satisfaction and +6 work. Those 4 points each are huge, especially since you'll be giving a lot of gifts, and those numbers max at 100.
With the items that boost battle stats, the class also makes a difference. A melon will give +12 Max HP to an Adventurer, but +20 Max HP to a Warrior. If you're trying to raise your stats efficiently, it would be way more beneficial to actually change your class to Warrior and then back to Adventurer in this case.
The events also give different boosts based on jobs as well, which I'll have to compile information about those.
Game Dev Story is the same way, with a lot of data being compiled (strangely not all of it is on the wiki despite an old GameFAQs guide existing with most of it), but the requirements to level up each Genre and Type are not documented anywhere. There are SO MANY of these and it's been quite tedious to go through them all, but I'm making decent progress, and it would be really helpful information to have on-hand if you were doing a non-NG+ run.
Also, I did go to the doctor a couple days ago, and we're just "keeping an eye on things," though they did refer me to schedule a sleep study, which was the main thing I wanted. The weird 'infestation' and chest vibration thing are both getting better anyway, so I'm not too worried.
Also I tried stroopwafel today. It's interesting lol. I heated it on top of a cup of tea like suggested, but it made one side steamed/soggy-ish? so it was a bit strange XD But it had a nice overall texture and was sweet without being like... American sugary sweet... so it was pretty good. Definitely something I'd only have now and then just because I'd lose appreciation for it if I was having it all the time I think...?
Another thing to play... and other stuff
Aug. 13th, 2026 12:47 pm(Short Digimon update: I have BloomLordmon and Gokumon on my devices now -- both seem to have done as many battles as they possible can, so I'm just kinda letting them die so I can get new eggs lmao. I even cleared Quest 7 in the Ver 4, so now all I have is Quest F!)
So, I've been playing mostly Fields of Mistria lately, but failing to find something else to stick, and it would be nice to have another Thing, as I've found having one Thing can lead to burnout when I'm forcing myself to do the other Thing. For a while I was playing Shadow Labyrinth and Sea of Stars alongside each other, and that worked great (both great games, btw, and I started entries about each but never got around to finishing them. Anyway, those two together worked really great.
But yeah, I have no idea what I wanna play alongside Mistria...
I've also been wanting to listen to more podcasts or music, which I was doing for a bit, but I seem to not be able to actually pay enough attention to the podcast if I'm doing ANYTHING else, but I also get antsy and can't stay focused if I'm JUST listening to a podcast. Same with music (and for the music, I'm wanting to 'work on' my playlists -- I'm trying to organize every single Hello! Project song on Spotify into playlists lmaooo)
But yeah, I don't necessarily have to do the podcast/playlist thing, but it would be nice to have another game.
I was considering doing Skyrim in German which I talked about before, but I did start it with the default Nord (even named 'Prisoner') just to see what it was like and get into the menus (you can't turn voice subtitles on until AFTER you get through the intro thing, and other settings, too), and the voice acting seems very bad? I mean, I don't know much German so maybe that's just 'how it sounds,' but coming from the English voices, it sounds like they are speaking with no feelings at all, just reading a script. Like with the random horse thief dude in the intro... there are parts in English he sounds very desperate, like when he's calling to the gods to save him, but in German it just sounds like someone gave the actor a list of the gods' names and told them to try to pronounce them for the first time, and he reads them as dully as possible. And another part when he tries to run, he's supposed to be shouting, but it just sounds like dry reading calmly... and all of the voices sounded like this to me???
Plus, getting into that made me feel like doing a deep dive into The Elder Scrolls which ... I don't really want to do that right now hahaha. But EVERYTHING makes me want to 'deep dive' so that is a problem...
But yeah, I might swap Skyrim out for Pokemon Schwert again, even though there are no voices. I did also find a copy of the German version of Sailor Moon, but there are no captions for the German dub. It does have subtitles, but they seem to be a more strict translation of the Japanese audio (which is also included) and don't follow what is said in the dub at all, so that's a bit difficult.
But yeah, it would also be nice just to have something I'm not trying to force other things into... like not something I'm trying to use to ALSO study language, or do some kind of crazy completionist thing, or write a guide for... even though I do enjoy those things, they're just not what I need now I think...? Maybe...???? I don't really know.
I kinda get in this 'in between' state a lot, where I'm trying to find a hyperfixation that 'sticks' and it's actually a very stressful time??? I've tried to talk about this with like every therapist I've had and they're just like "OK. Anyway..." lol
But yeah... something on Switch might be cool because then I can play it at various times...? And I was thinking about the language thing and probably a Japanese game would be fine because I'm not really "studying" it at this point, just more keeping it fresh in my mind and picking up words here and there (my vocabulary is still pretty atrocious and we did not focus on that in school at all, and I never bothered to work on it more seriously myself).
Thinking of that, though, there's not a lot I'm super interested in right now.
I did recently get Beyblade X Evobattle on Steam, even though I never finished the first Beyblade X game.
I could go back to Commander Keen...?
I was also thinking of Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley as it's pretty braindead most of the time, so I could even listen to podcasts during that probably. Though I do really like the nighttime music lol. Maybe I could keep the music very low and still listen to the podcast XD Might be a bit too overstimulating though.
That's an interesting conundrum I have, though. Activities like watching TV and movies, reading, listening to music or podcasts... on their own, they are not stimulating enough to my ADHD and I get distracted way too easily and can't focus on them, and find myself doing some random other thing without even realizing I got off track. But trying to add even a little bit of outside stimulation to things tends to overwhelm and overstimulate me, which is more an autism thing... so I really am just screwed all around XD though games tend to be the best level of interactivity that keeps me from feeling either of those things. Gameplay loops keep me engaged, and there are lots of sights and sounds to stimulate, but they are in a more controlled environment that is meant to all go together, and you can adjust things like volume and brightness and such if it's too much of any one thing.
But yeah, this post is getting all over the place... XD
I've also been kind of wanting to try out a few 'old games' that I want to get into... in particular Wing Commander and Ultima have been 'sticking out' as interesting off and on recently, but neither seems super appealing right now?
Oh, and another worry I have about The Lost Valley is playing it alongside Mistria, it might be 'too much farming.' Plus since they are similar in game systems, having the different controls could make going back and forth way too frustrating. This is something that has happened before when I tried to play two farming games at once hahaha.
Oh yeah, I've also been considering getting back into Disney Dreamlight Valley but... idk lol. That might also be a weird 'control confusion' thing with Mistria even though they are pretty different... there are still a lot of shared things, and the basic types of actions (walking around and using tools on things) are the same.
Maybe it's finally time to actually play Final Fantasy XV ??!?!?!
Oh yeah, ChoroQ HG could be a good choice for "podcast game" as most of it is just... grinding the same easy races to make money... and there's not any story or anything, so not much reading to distract me.
But yeah I think the 'problem' is there are lots and lots of games to choose from (decision paralysis yay) mixed with the fact that starting anything is so intimidating and overwhelming, that everything just seems like a 'bad choice.' But the reality is I'll enjoy plenty of stuff easily, I just have to actually start it lmao. Some stuff I do think is actually a bad choice, though, like if I tried to play Stardew alongside Mistria for example.
I think I really am just gonna try The Lost Valley though and go from there. I think they really are different enough that I might not have too much problem...? Plus it really would be nice just to have something to play on the Switch when I'm not at the PC.
I also really want to create a Neocities page -- I've been thinking about it ever since![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rotten_putrid introduced me to the idea hahaha. I even have the signup tab open right now. But I can't even decide on a username, much less what I want the page to be about and actually look like...!
Uh I just thought... maybe I could draw?! I've tried to listen to music before while drawing and sometimes it's too much though. BUT I DON'T HAVE TO MINMAX LIFE so I guess I don't have to do the podcast/playlist thing while drawing. It would be nice to get back into furry stuff again, and work on (and maybe even redesign... again... my fursona)
Actually I've been kind of thinking of creating an all-new fursona...? My current 'sona is a cockroach, and part of that comes from my love for bugs, and I honestly really do love cockroaches a lot, but part of the initial choice also came from a bit of self-loathing. I chose a cockroach precisely because most people hate roaches, and I felt like most people hate me. It wasn't 100% just "this is the worst animal and everyone hates it so I will be scum animal," there was also the idea that 'some people can actually appreciate me,' kinda how I do appreciate roaches, but still, the founding idea still came from a mostly-negative headspace.
I have really grown to love Ness, but also his personality is based mostly on 'negative' traits of mine -- he's awkward, uncomfortable, too timid... while I had a separate 'human' 'sona that was intended to be a sort of 'opposite' of that, to the point of being a bit too aggressive and hypersexual, like they were kind of intended to be two 'extremes' of myself, but I don't feel like most of anything they stood for really applies to me much anymore.
I also kind of want to move away from the 'NessEggman' name, as classic as it is. I was just already using it as it was my original GameFAQs username, and I liked it well enough that I started using it for everything, including deviantArt and FurAffinity, and then that bled into becoming my sona's name. But it's just... someone else's copyright characters XD And it would be nice to have a sona not named after that, too. Kinda like how I decided to move away from the Metapod name in video content creation.
But yeah, this is something I'll have to think on more XD I did just get the Bamboo Fun out and the cord was thankfully long enough to reach my PC tower, though I did have to pull it out from under the desk to be able to plug the cable in (I have no other cables I could use, as this is my only USB Mini-B cable I have... I used to have one that came with the DualShock3, but I lost it, and just have been using this one cable for both devices lol)
So yeah IDK. Maybe a new drawing era will begin now??
Maybe I should get out the Sea of Stars artbook for artistic inspiration XD
Uh, I think I had other stuff I wanted to talk about but going and getting the drawing tablet out, I've lost all my thought trains. Like, completely derailed off the tracks and into the ocean. (lol that reminds me once when I was staying in Florida for a bit, a train fell into the ocean carrying coal or something? And the entire ocean where we lived was just brown for a bit... that's what happened here! We have a brown ocean, so I'm just gonna end here lol)
So, I've been playing mostly Fields of Mistria lately, but failing to find something else to stick, and it would be nice to have another Thing, as I've found having one Thing can lead to burnout when I'm forcing myself to do the other Thing. For a while I was playing Shadow Labyrinth and Sea of Stars alongside each other, and that worked great (both great games, btw, and I started entries about each but never got around to finishing them. Anyway, those two together worked really great.
But yeah, I have no idea what I wanna play alongside Mistria...
I've also been wanting to listen to more podcasts or music, which I was doing for a bit, but I seem to not be able to actually pay enough attention to the podcast if I'm doing ANYTHING else, but I also get antsy and can't stay focused if I'm JUST listening to a podcast. Same with music (and for the music, I'm wanting to 'work on' my playlists -- I'm trying to organize every single Hello! Project song on Spotify into playlists lmaooo)
But yeah, I don't necessarily have to do the podcast/playlist thing, but it would be nice to have another game.
I was considering doing Skyrim in German which I talked about before, but I did start it with the default Nord (even named 'Prisoner') just to see what it was like and get into the menus (you can't turn voice subtitles on until AFTER you get through the intro thing, and other settings, too), and the voice acting seems very bad? I mean, I don't know much German so maybe that's just 'how it sounds,' but coming from the English voices, it sounds like they are speaking with no feelings at all, just reading a script. Like with the random horse thief dude in the intro... there are parts in English he sounds very desperate, like when he's calling to the gods to save him, but in German it just sounds like someone gave the actor a list of the gods' names and told them to try to pronounce them for the first time, and he reads them as dully as possible. And another part when he tries to run, he's supposed to be shouting, but it just sounds like dry reading calmly... and all of the voices sounded like this to me???
Plus, getting into that made me feel like doing a deep dive into The Elder Scrolls which ... I don't really want to do that right now hahaha. But EVERYTHING makes me want to 'deep dive' so that is a problem...
But yeah, I might swap Skyrim out for Pokemon Schwert again, even though there are no voices. I did also find a copy of the German version of Sailor Moon, but there are no captions for the German dub. It does have subtitles, but they seem to be a more strict translation of the Japanese audio (which is also included) and don't follow what is said in the dub at all, so that's a bit difficult.
But yeah, it would also be nice just to have something I'm not trying to force other things into... like not something I'm trying to use to ALSO study language, or do some kind of crazy completionist thing, or write a guide for... even though I do enjoy those things, they're just not what I need now I think...? Maybe...???? I don't really know.
I kinda get in this 'in between' state a lot, where I'm trying to find a hyperfixation that 'sticks' and it's actually a very stressful time??? I've tried to talk about this with like every therapist I've had and they're just like "OK. Anyway..." lol
But yeah... something on Switch might be cool because then I can play it at various times...? And I was thinking about the language thing and probably a Japanese game would be fine because I'm not really "studying" it at this point, just more keeping it fresh in my mind and picking up words here and there (my vocabulary is still pretty atrocious and we did not focus on that in school at all, and I never bothered to work on it more seriously myself).
Thinking of that, though, there's not a lot I'm super interested in right now.
I did recently get Beyblade X Evobattle on Steam, even though I never finished the first Beyblade X game.
I could go back to Commander Keen...?
I was also thinking of Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley as it's pretty braindead most of the time, so I could even listen to podcasts during that probably. Though I do really like the nighttime music lol. Maybe I could keep the music very low and still listen to the podcast XD Might be a bit too overstimulating though.
That's an interesting conundrum I have, though. Activities like watching TV and movies, reading, listening to music or podcasts... on their own, they are not stimulating enough to my ADHD and I get distracted way too easily and can't focus on them, and find myself doing some random other thing without even realizing I got off track. But trying to add even a little bit of outside stimulation to things tends to overwhelm and overstimulate me, which is more an autism thing... so I really am just screwed all around XD though games tend to be the best level of interactivity that keeps me from feeling either of those things. Gameplay loops keep me engaged, and there are lots of sights and sounds to stimulate, but they are in a more controlled environment that is meant to all go together, and you can adjust things like volume and brightness and such if it's too much of any one thing.
But yeah, this post is getting all over the place... XD
I've also been kind of wanting to try out a few 'old games' that I want to get into... in particular Wing Commander and Ultima have been 'sticking out' as interesting off and on recently, but neither seems super appealing right now?
Oh, and another worry I have about The Lost Valley is playing it alongside Mistria, it might be 'too much farming.' Plus since they are similar in game systems, having the different controls could make going back and forth way too frustrating. This is something that has happened before when I tried to play two farming games at once hahaha.
Oh yeah, I've also been considering getting back into Disney Dreamlight Valley but... idk lol. That might also be a weird 'control confusion' thing with Mistria even though they are pretty different... there are still a lot of shared things, and the basic types of actions (walking around and using tools on things) are the same.
Maybe it's finally time to actually play Final Fantasy XV ??!?!?!
Oh yeah, ChoroQ HG could be a good choice for "podcast game" as most of it is just... grinding the same easy races to make money... and there's not any story or anything, so not much reading to distract me.
But yeah I think the 'problem' is there are lots and lots of games to choose from (decision paralysis yay) mixed with the fact that starting anything is so intimidating and overwhelming, that everything just seems like a 'bad choice.' But the reality is I'll enjoy plenty of stuff easily, I just have to actually start it lmao. Some stuff I do think is actually a bad choice, though, like if I tried to play Stardew alongside Mistria for example.
I think I really am just gonna try The Lost Valley though and go from there. I think they really are different enough that I might not have too much problem...? Plus it really would be nice just to have something to play on the Switch when I'm not at the PC.
I also really want to create a Neocities page -- I've been thinking about it ever since
rotten_putrid introduced me to the idea hahaha. I even have the signup tab open right now. But I can't even decide on a username, much less what I want the page to be about and actually look like...!Uh I just thought... maybe I could draw?! I've tried to listen to music before while drawing and sometimes it's too much though. BUT I DON'T HAVE TO MINMAX LIFE so I guess I don't have to do the podcast/playlist thing while drawing. It would be nice to get back into furry stuff again, and work on (and maybe even redesign... again... my fursona)
Actually I've been kind of thinking of creating an all-new fursona...? My current 'sona is a cockroach, and part of that comes from my love for bugs, and I honestly really do love cockroaches a lot, but part of the initial choice also came from a bit of self-loathing. I chose a cockroach precisely because most people hate roaches, and I felt like most people hate me. It wasn't 100% just "this is the worst animal and everyone hates it so I will be scum animal," there was also the idea that 'some people can actually appreciate me,' kinda how I do appreciate roaches, but still, the founding idea still came from a mostly-negative headspace.
I have really grown to love Ness, but also his personality is based mostly on 'negative' traits of mine -- he's awkward, uncomfortable, too timid... while I had a separate 'human' 'sona that was intended to be a sort of 'opposite' of that, to the point of being a bit too aggressive and hypersexual, like they were kind of intended to be two 'extremes' of myself, but I don't feel like most of anything they stood for really applies to me much anymore.
I also kind of want to move away from the 'NessEggman' name, as classic as it is. I was just already using it as it was my original GameFAQs username, and I liked it well enough that I started using it for everything, including deviantArt and FurAffinity, and then that bled into becoming my sona's name. But it's just... someone else's copyright characters XD And it would be nice to have a sona not named after that, too. Kinda like how I decided to move away from the Metapod name in video content creation.
But yeah, this is something I'll have to think on more XD I did just get the Bamboo Fun out and the cord was thankfully long enough to reach my PC tower, though I did have to pull it out from under the desk to be able to plug the cable in (I have no other cables I could use, as this is my only USB Mini-B cable I have... I used to have one that came with the DualShock3, but I lost it, and just have been using this one cable for both devices lol)
So yeah IDK. Maybe a new drawing era will begin now??
Maybe I should get out the Sea of Stars artbook for artistic inspiration XD
Uh, I think I had other stuff I wanted to talk about but going and getting the drawing tablet out, I've lost all my thought trains. Like, completely derailed off the tracks and into the ocean. (lol that reminds me once when I was staying in Florida for a bit, a train fell into the ocean carrying coal or something? And the entire ocean where we lived was just brown for a bit... that's what happened here! We have a brown ocean, so I'm just gonna end here lol)
At least tiny Digimon are cute...
Aug. 11th, 2026 04:03 pmSo, firstly, about the weird chest thing, it does not seem to be going away, though I am getting a little more confident it's something like muscle spams around the larynx. I was able to get an appointment for tomorrow, but it means I had to cancel therapy for the week. Also, I decided to just completely quit occupational therapy. I've been thinking about it for a while, because the dude is not helping me at all. A lot of times I'll even explain the problem and explicitly ask for help and he will just stare at me. But if I talk about Pokemon he'll get excited and go on about Delibird lol. All we ever have are like friendly convos about nerdy stuff, and I think he's done pretty much nothing the entire time I've been seeing him, which is weekly for months now... also he pronounces like every Pokemon's name wrong
But then after cancelling he called me and kept asking "what was going on" in a voicemail... Even though I explained to the receptionist?? Like I guess she probably just didn't tell him anything but still he called like literally within an hour of me cancelling. Soooo that is stressful. But the thing in my chest seems to occur when I talk, so I have an excuse not to return the call lmfao.
Then, I think I got like... some kind of bug infestation like... in my clothes or on by body...? I'm assuming it was a shirt I put on after showering the other day, because when I took it off there were weird black things in it (though they were kinda big, and didn't look like actual bugs nor eggs, and honestly just looked like strangely uniform lint balls--I even tore some apart and they were stringy like lint lol). They were alarmingly concentrated just around the neck and wrists. But yeah, I had been getting some kind of bites throughout the days I was wearing it...? Somehow I did not notice the black things until last night though, when I took it off because my arm was very itchy (normally I don't look on the inside of my clothes??) and had more than one bite-like thing...
So I panicked and washed all my clothes I was wearing and all clothes in the hamper and took a shower... maybe that's what I need to get me to regular bathe... let bugs live on my body :\
I don't even know if it was bug-related, could be some other thing and I was having a weird allergic reaction or something...? I tried looking up all kinds of things and the dark things in my shirt didn't look like anything related to typical pests. About 10 years ago we had bed bugs for like 2 whole years so I am well familiar with their presence and this was nothing like that, so that's good. I also did check the bed and my chair and the couch and stuff just in case, and saw no evidence of any bugs there. JUST the one shirt.
Also the several bites (?) on the inside of my elbow all cleared up over night after taking the shirt off. The other little bites haven't gone away though. So maybe it's multiple things. IDK.
Oh, also, the black things were still there even after washing. I could pick them off easily but they seemed to be kind of intertwined with the fabric. So I just threw the shirt out lol.
But yeah so I was up way late doing laundry and showering and stuff because I discovered the things in the shirt like right before bed ^_^
So now I am tired because all of that happened last night, and the occutharp called me just a few hours ago so I'm still anxious over that, too... I see my regular therapist and psychiatrist at the same clinic so surely I will run into him (I usually see him in the waiting rooms lol) so I'll have to confront him at some point :D
But for now... I play with Digimon...
On the Colors, Kunemon did make it to Drimogemon (yay!) and then recently (I think last night) became Giromon. While I talked in a previous entry about having more things to worry about, now that I think about it, it's mostly just seichoki stage where you have to keep track of a large number of things. Care mistakes, training, overfeeding, and sleep disturbance all matter in determining your seijukuki stage. Before that, only care mistakes matter, and even as seijukuki, the only thing that matters is battle win rate. You do have to make sure to get 15 battles with a win rate of 80%+ in a certain time limit to guarantee evolution (you can evolve but without 100% chance with a lower win rate as long as you get the 15 battles in, but once the evolution timer runs out, if you haven't evolved, you never will). And then after that, it's the same, but now care mistakes can also prevent evolution...
So, uh, I'm trying to get Piccolomon (on the Ver4, which evolved from Cockatrimon) to BloomLordmon and Giromon to Gokumon. I have the battles done on both I think, so Piccolomon should evolve like... tonight maybe? and then tomorrow for Gokumon... or maybe later, idk. The evolution timer for this stage is 36 hours, and I honestly can't remember when they first evolved to these forms. I was too itchy. 4 itchy tasty.
But yeah, they're both the 'tiny' Digimon, which there is one like this on all five versions of the Color... I used to think they were annoying and dumb looking but Piccolomon is actually quite cute when it animates...!
Look at this lil guy :,) Funny big mouth. Giromon does similar stuff but Piccolomon is cuter somehow XD Giromon is growing on me a bit. Is this my era of loving Pea Digimon???
This is Giromon btw lol.
ALSO I need to do a post about all the Rosy Chronicle songs lol. And Rosy Chronicle in general.
But yeah, I need to get back to Mistria... yesterday I played nothing but a little bit of rhythm games, mostly a new one called Bleap (new to me, it's been out like a year). Might post about that later too.
But then after cancelling he called me and kept asking "what was going on" in a voicemail... Even though I explained to the receptionist?? Like I guess she probably just didn't tell him anything but still he called like literally within an hour of me cancelling. Soooo that is stressful. But the thing in my chest seems to occur when I talk, so I have an excuse not to return the call lmfao.
Then, I think I got like... some kind of bug infestation like... in my clothes or on by body...? I'm assuming it was a shirt I put on after showering the other day, because when I took it off there were weird black things in it (though they were kinda big, and didn't look like actual bugs nor eggs, and honestly just looked like strangely uniform lint balls--I even tore some apart and they were stringy like lint lol). They were alarmingly concentrated just around the neck and wrists. But yeah, I had been getting some kind of bites throughout the days I was wearing it...? Somehow I did not notice the black things until last night though, when I took it off because my arm was very itchy (normally I don't look on the inside of my clothes??) and had more than one bite-like thing...
So I panicked and washed all my clothes I was wearing and all clothes in the hamper and took a shower... maybe that's what I need to get me to regular bathe... let bugs live on my body :\
I don't even know if it was bug-related, could be some other thing and I was having a weird allergic reaction or something...? I tried looking up all kinds of things and the dark things in my shirt didn't look like anything related to typical pests. About 10 years ago we had bed bugs for like 2 whole years so I am well familiar with their presence and this was nothing like that, so that's good. I also did check the bed and my chair and the couch and stuff just in case, and saw no evidence of any bugs there. JUST the one shirt.
Also the several bites (?) on the inside of my elbow all cleared up over night after taking the shirt off. The other little bites haven't gone away though. So maybe it's multiple things. IDK.
Oh, also, the black things were still there even after washing. I could pick them off easily but they seemed to be kind of intertwined with the fabric. So I just threw the shirt out lol.
But yeah so I was up way late doing laundry and showering and stuff because I discovered the things in the shirt like right before bed ^_^
So now I am tired because all of that happened last night, and the occutharp called me just a few hours ago so I'm still anxious over that, too... I see my regular therapist and psychiatrist at the same clinic so surely I will run into him (I usually see him in the waiting rooms lol) so I'll have to confront him at some point :D
But for now... I play with Digimon...
On the Colors, Kunemon did make it to Drimogemon (yay!) and then recently (I think last night) became Giromon. While I talked in a previous entry about having more things to worry about, now that I think about it, it's mostly just seichoki stage where you have to keep track of a large number of things. Care mistakes, training, overfeeding, and sleep disturbance all matter in determining your seijukuki stage. Before that, only care mistakes matter, and even as seijukuki, the only thing that matters is battle win rate. You do have to make sure to get 15 battles with a win rate of 80%+ in a certain time limit to guarantee evolution (you can evolve but without 100% chance with a lower win rate as long as you get the 15 battles in, but once the evolution timer runs out, if you haven't evolved, you never will). And then after that, it's the same, but now care mistakes can also prevent evolution...
So, uh, I'm trying to get Piccolomon (on the Ver4, which evolved from Cockatrimon) to BloomLordmon and Giromon to Gokumon. I have the battles done on both I think, so Piccolomon should evolve like... tonight maybe? and then tomorrow for Gokumon... or maybe later, idk. The evolution timer for this stage is 36 hours, and I honestly can't remember when they first evolved to these forms. I was too itchy. 4 itchy tasty.
But yeah, they're both the 'tiny' Digimon, which there is one like this on all five versions of the Color... I used to think they were annoying and dumb looking but Piccolomon is actually quite cute when it animates...!
Look at this lil guy :,) Funny big mouth. Giromon does similar stuff but Piccolomon is cuter somehow XD Giromon is growing on me a bit. Is this my era of loving Pea Digimon???
This is Giromon btw lol.
ALSO I need to do a post about all the Rosy Chronicle songs lol. And Rosy Chronicle in general.
But yeah, I need to get back to Mistria... yesterday I played nothing but a little bit of rhythm games, mostly a new one called Bleap (new to me, it's been out like a year). Might post about that later too.
Do I need a Digimon icon???
Aug. 8th, 2026 11:28 pmMore Digital Monster Color talk!!!
A shorter ramble this time.
So, I got out the Digimon Color Ver 3 to play alongside the Ver 4. This one has my favorite, Kunemon!! It also seems to have the most complex evolution tree of the five versions. It also has a very cool shell (do you call them 'shells' on Digimon devices...?)
The colors remind me of childhood? Like it makes me think of Nickelodeon with the bright orange buttons and green frame around the screen. And the purple makes me think of TMNT for some reason...?
Anyway, here is my lil sleppy boy.
I'm trying to evolve him to Drimogemon, which means I need to get 4 care mistakes, train 24 times, disturb sleep 2 times, and overfeed 4 times. I think I have done all those things. If you leave them at empty meters for 12+ hours, they can die, so I've been trying to make sure not to do that... I am keeping the hunger meter full, and when it drops a little, overfeeding... then after getting a few care mistakes from the strength meter, then feeding a few proteins to keep it from registering as constantly empty and give me a break from the beeps.
The Ver 4 is Cockatrimon right now... to evolve I just need 15+ battles with 80% win rate. I think I got around 16 wins and 2 losses...? You can check the win rate, but not the number of battles... but I tried to go until I got at least 15 wins. Though I think the requirement is only number of battles needs to reach 15.
I also am thinking about starting Skyrim in German. I was doing Pokemon Schwert but it doesn't have voices, and voices would be helpful right now. Skyrim is well-recommended for language studies because the voices tend to be slow, clear, and understandable.
I'm thinking about playing as a Breton this time and using a variety of magic...? Particularly, the three schools I never use. Destruction and Restoration are the most intuitive... damage spells that hurt the bad guys, healing spells that heal you... the others have all kinds of different effects and I've been too intimidated to look into them. So why not learn all new schools of magic in a language I barely understand?
I also think since Breton starts with a bonus in Alchemy, I might focus on healing through potions rather than Restoration magic, since I always do Restoration. (Breton does also start with Restoration bonus too though lol).
So, I might post about that if I really get into it...
(I already abandoned the Mega Man X8 playthrough I was doing -- I did start a playthrough and was writing an entry about it, but nope XD)
I've also been playing Fields of Mistria, though I kinda wanna take my time with it. I am really enjoying it so far... the gameplay mechanics are all just copy/paste from other games, the environment spritework is heavily influenced by A Link to the Past, and the character art emulates 90's anime styles, in particular Sailor Moon. So it's a game that pretty much just copies from other things, doing very little original, but also somehow feels very refreshing in the way it ties it all together...?
Other than a few performance issues and some slightly unintuitive things here and there, I don't think I have any actual complaints? We will have to wait and see how it goes once I get further and really see how the game is balanced and such.
I do really like the characters, though. It's a pretty great cast, and the character design is top-notch.
And then finally, let's talk about my health LOLLL
Well, just I've had some weird... feeling? in my chest yesterday and today. I don't fully understand what I am even feeling because it's very strange, but it's a sort of vibration and almost a weak feeling in my chest that mostly occurs when I'm talking (or shortly after talking). Because of that, I think it might be something like the larynx muscles or muscles nearby are spasming or something? I also thought maybe it could be something to do with the trachea because when it happens I do feel a tiny bit of air pressure or air escape or something. Just a tiny bit.
It only happens for like a half a second, but yesterday it happened like 5 or 6 times and today at least twice. I wonder if it is related to sleep apnea, because I've been leaving that unchecked forever, and recently have been having more times where I can't sleep at all because as soon as I doze off, I completely stop breathing, and immediately wake back up and having to manually take a few deep breaths. Usually I'm super tired though so I start dozing again and just do this like 15-20 second loop of dozing then gasping for breath for like 6-8 hours.
I did put in a request for an appointment with my PCP, though it was yesterday (Friday) night at 6PM, when I started to actually worry about it... so probably won't be until Monday to hear back about that. So if my trachea collapses, it was nice knowing you all.
But yeah, looking up stuff about all that, and just general chest pain/discomfort, nothing seems to be particularly alarming. The only things that seem to be worrisome come with other, more terrifying symptoms like one leg swelling a lot or coughing up blood or something.
If it's just spasms in or around the larynx, it could even just be a stress thing. Which I have plenty of that! (It's funny because my life would seem extremely lax and soothing to a 'normal' person hahaha)
Uhhh also just wanted to say I tried out The GIMP 3, and it... looks and feels exactly like GIMP 2. I don't really know what I was expecting hahaha.
A shorter ramble this time.
So, I got out the Digimon Color Ver 3 to play alongside the Ver 4. This one has my favorite, Kunemon!! It also seems to have the most complex evolution tree of the five versions. It also has a very cool shell (do you call them 'shells' on Digimon devices...?)
The colors remind me of childhood? Like it makes me think of Nickelodeon with the bright orange buttons and green frame around the screen. And the purple makes me think of TMNT for some reason...?
Anyway, here is my lil sleppy boy.
I'm trying to evolve him to Drimogemon, which means I need to get 4 care mistakes, train 24 times, disturb sleep 2 times, and overfeed 4 times. I think I have done all those things. If you leave them at empty meters for 12+ hours, they can die, so I've been trying to make sure not to do that... I am keeping the hunger meter full, and when it drops a little, overfeeding... then after getting a few care mistakes from the strength meter, then feeding a few proteins to keep it from registering as constantly empty and give me a break from the beeps.
The Ver 4 is Cockatrimon right now... to evolve I just need 15+ battles with 80% win rate. I think I got around 16 wins and 2 losses...? You can check the win rate, but not the number of battles... but I tried to go until I got at least 15 wins. Though I think the requirement is only number of battles needs to reach 15.
I also am thinking about starting Skyrim in German. I was doing Pokemon Schwert but it doesn't have voices, and voices would be helpful right now. Skyrim is well-recommended for language studies because the voices tend to be slow, clear, and understandable.
I'm thinking about playing as a Breton this time and using a variety of magic...? Particularly, the three schools I never use. Destruction and Restoration are the most intuitive... damage spells that hurt the bad guys, healing spells that heal you... the others have all kinds of different effects and I've been too intimidated to look into them. So why not learn all new schools of magic in a language I barely understand?
I also think since Breton starts with a bonus in Alchemy, I might focus on healing through potions rather than Restoration magic, since I always do Restoration. (Breton does also start with Restoration bonus too though lol).
So, I might post about that if I really get into it...
(I already abandoned the Mega Man X8 playthrough I was doing -- I did start a playthrough and was writing an entry about it, but nope XD)
I've also been playing Fields of Mistria, though I kinda wanna take my time with it. I am really enjoying it so far... the gameplay mechanics are all just copy/paste from other games, the environment spritework is heavily influenced by A Link to the Past, and the character art emulates 90's anime styles, in particular Sailor Moon. So it's a game that pretty much just copies from other things, doing very little original, but also somehow feels very refreshing in the way it ties it all together...?
Other than a few performance issues and some slightly unintuitive things here and there, I don't think I have any actual complaints? We will have to wait and see how it goes once I get further and really see how the game is balanced and such.
I do really like the characters, though. It's a pretty great cast, and the character design is top-notch.
And then finally, let's talk about my health LOLLL
Well, just I've had some weird... feeling? in my chest yesterday and today. I don't fully understand what I am even feeling because it's very strange, but it's a sort of vibration and almost a weak feeling in my chest that mostly occurs when I'm talking (or shortly after talking). Because of that, I think it might be something like the larynx muscles or muscles nearby are spasming or something? I also thought maybe it could be something to do with the trachea because when it happens I do feel a tiny bit of air pressure or air escape or something. Just a tiny bit.
It only happens for like a half a second, but yesterday it happened like 5 or 6 times and today at least twice. I wonder if it is related to sleep apnea, because I've been leaving that unchecked forever, and recently have been having more times where I can't sleep at all because as soon as I doze off, I completely stop breathing, and immediately wake back up and having to manually take a few deep breaths. Usually I'm super tired though so I start dozing again and just do this like 15-20 second loop of dozing then gasping for breath for like 6-8 hours.
I did put in a request for an appointment with my PCP, though it was yesterday (Friday) night at 6PM, when I started to actually worry about it... so probably won't be until Monday to hear back about that. So if my trachea collapses, it was nice knowing you all.
But yeah, looking up stuff about all that, and just general chest pain/discomfort, nothing seems to be particularly alarming. The only things that seem to be worrisome come with other, more terrifying symptoms like one leg swelling a lot or coughing up blood or something.
If it's just spasms in or around the larynx, it could even just be a stress thing. Which I have plenty of that! (It's funny because my life would seem extremely lax and soothing to a 'normal' person hahaha)
Uhhh also just wanted to say I tried out The GIMP 3, and it... looks and feels exactly like GIMP 2. I don't really know what I was expecting hahaha.
Ys Series version stuff
Aug. 8th, 2026 03:53 pmSo, I was talking with a friend on twitch today about the Ys games, and I kinda wanna work on playing them all... I have played through several of them (I think 1, 2, 6, and Origin are the only ones I've cleared the main game though, and Origin had 3 storylines with different playable characters so it was like 3 whole games lol).
But uh, there are like SO many different versions of each game, and it would be kinda nice to just know what all is out there. It would even be kinda cool to try notable alternate versions to each game. Like many have been remade but also had weird alternate/remake versions 'back in the day' as well, or just versions that had enough significant differences between platforms that it might be worth at least looking into videos of one after playing another.
But yeah, I kinda wanna just organize all that here.
In all, there seem to be 11 main games (10 numbered + Origin), with a few times the series departed from previous gameplay styles.
I'm going to note importantly the original release and most definitive release of each, with the definitive version being a version that exists in the modern timeline/canon. The games have been steadily remade so that almost all of the 'older' games have modern versions that fit into the current timeline and canon, while the older versions of the games are kind of their own separate 'old canon' now, which was a bit more loose with stuff like two different versions of Ys 4 and various ports, rereleases, and ports changing things about the games.
Because of that, there are many games with various remakes and versions that differ greatly even from the ones listed here, so for an insight into all the versions of a particular game, I suggest the Ys Wiki as a good place to start learning.
The games overall are only loosely related; outside of Origin they just revolve around Adol having various adventures, though always in new places and not really referencing the adventures of the past outside of minor things, so they can really be played in any order without missing much. They do technically occur in the order of the numbers, so if you want to follow the "timeline," just play the games in that order.
Ys Origin does take place before the rest of the games, and does reference Ys I & II a bit. Honestly I think either Origin or I & II could be played first, as the knowledge of either can enhance the experience of the other.
( Read more... )
But uh, there are like SO many different versions of each game, and it would be kinda nice to just know what all is out there. It would even be kinda cool to try notable alternate versions to each game. Like many have been remade but also had weird alternate/remake versions 'back in the day' as well, or just versions that had enough significant differences between platforms that it might be worth at least looking into videos of one after playing another.
But yeah, I kinda wanna just organize all that here.
In all, there seem to be 11 main games (10 numbered + Origin), with a few times the series departed from previous gameplay styles.
I'm going to note importantly the original release and most definitive release of each, with the definitive version being a version that exists in the modern timeline/canon. The games have been steadily remade so that almost all of the 'older' games have modern versions that fit into the current timeline and canon, while the older versions of the games are kind of their own separate 'old canon' now, which was a bit more loose with stuff like two different versions of Ys 4 and various ports, rereleases, and ports changing things about the games.
Because of that, there are many games with various remakes and versions that differ greatly even from the ones listed here, so for an insight into all the versions of a particular game, I suggest the Ys Wiki as a good place to start learning.
The games overall are only loosely related; outside of Origin they just revolve around Adol having various adventures, though always in new places and not really referencing the adventures of the past outside of minor things, so they can really be played in any order without missing much. They do technically occur in the order of the numbers, so if you want to follow the "timeline," just play the games in that order.
Ys Origin does take place before the rest of the games, and does reference Ys I & II a bit. Honestly I think either Origin or I & II could be played first, as the knowledge of either can enhance the experience of the other.
( Read more... )
I got Piyomon :(
Aug. 7th, 2026 03:18 pmSo, when I was asleep today I heard my Digimon evolve (from across the house, yeah, these things are LOUD... hopefully there's not a fire in your house when a Digimon dies because the death SKREE is so loud and long that you'd probably miss the fire alarm).
I got Piyomon D: I literally did not even touch it after it evolved to Tanemon... it only needs 4 care mistakes to get to Palmon, and it should have gotten like... one from not being put to bed and at least two from missing the care calls it got before going to sleep...
The evolution countdown continues even when the Digimon is asleep though, which means it probably just didn't have enough time to get to 4 care mistakes, I guess, since I started it pretty late last night... Yup, looked it up and Tanemon goes to sleep at 8PM (and all evolutions wake up at 8AM), and the evolution time between yonenki and seichoki is only 12 hours. So I would have had to have gotten all 4 care mistakes before it went to sleep, which I indeed did not.
Each evolutionary stage also 'resets' the counter for most of the things it keeps track of, so like you need 4 care mistakes as Tanemon to get to Palmon, but then to get to Kuwagamon from Palmon, you also need 4 care mistakes, but all the ones you got previously no longer count, so you have to get a whole new 4 mistakes during the Palmon stage.
Compare this to most Tamagotchi models, the care mistakes are cumulative, so you can just kind of 'prepare' your Tama for evolution quickly and then just ride it out. Like in the Paradise, I usually get all the evolutionary requirements quickly after it evolves out of being a baby, and then just take normal care of it until it reaches adulthood and it will take the path I want, without ever having to worry about meeting any more requirements.
With Digital Monster, you really have to keep on top of them at each stage, as well as even plan ahead when you hatch your egg, I guess!
And it's an even more stark contrast to the Paradise in that there's a lot more than just care mistakes to worry about. Paradise does have the whole diet thing, but you can fulfill the diet requirement immediately once they are out of the baby phase, and as long as you don't give them any special dietary foods after that, they will always maintain that. And then only the 'perfect' evolutions require you to fill the bars a certain number of times.
But Digital Monster Color has care mistakes, training, overfeeding, sleep disruption, and battling that all contribute to evolution pathing, and there are other stats/conditions (injury and protein overdose) that can also affect how they battle or if they outright die on you before evolving. So there are a lot more things to worry about. Plus the Digimon can evolve up to 6 times total, with 4 of those evolutionary stages requiring you to fulfill certain conditions in a certain time frame, none of which can be fulfilled in a previous phase of evolution.
Right now I have my little Piyomon and I decide I'm going to go for Cockatrimon, as you can only get Cockatrimon from Piyomon, and it's one of the 'make 4+ mistakes' ones, so it's a little harder to get.
I also have to overfeed it twice (I've done one already) and disturb its sleep twice. I'm pretty sure you can disturb sleep as many times in a normal night/sleep cycle as you want, so I should be able to get both tonight. Plus Piyomon evolves after 24 hours, so it will always only ever go through one night of sleeping anyway. So I guess it must work that way.
I also have to get between 5 and 24 training sessions in, which you can do these unlimitedly and it still counts toward the requirement even if you fail, but I did make sure to get 5 successes, just in case, and I did fail 3 times, so 8 total. So I should be good on that.
So I guess really I don't have to worry about TOO much other than to keep accumulating care mistakes, and to make sure to overfeed one more time. But that's still more than the Paradise, and I have to watch this kind of stuff during each evolution. Actually I think it's really only from seichoki to seijukuki that you have to worry about the sleep disturbance and overfeeding and training. The other stages are all just care mistakes and battles, though battles can be affected by training and protein overdose, and you can die from too many injuries (which can come from battles or... poop... injury by poop...)
Either way, still more maintenance and attention to stats than Tamagotchi Paradise or really most other Tamagotchis.
I got Piyomon D: I literally did not even touch it after it evolved to Tanemon... it only needs 4 care mistakes to get to Palmon, and it should have gotten like... one from not being put to bed and at least two from missing the care calls it got before going to sleep...
The evolution countdown continues even when the Digimon is asleep though, which means it probably just didn't have enough time to get to 4 care mistakes, I guess, since I started it pretty late last night... Yup, looked it up and Tanemon goes to sleep at 8PM (and all evolutions wake up at 8AM), and the evolution time between yonenki and seichoki is only 12 hours. So I would have had to have gotten all 4 care mistakes before it went to sleep, which I indeed did not.
Each evolutionary stage also 'resets' the counter for most of the things it keeps track of, so like you need 4 care mistakes as Tanemon to get to Palmon, but then to get to Kuwagamon from Palmon, you also need 4 care mistakes, but all the ones you got previously no longer count, so you have to get a whole new 4 mistakes during the Palmon stage.
Compare this to most Tamagotchi models, the care mistakes are cumulative, so you can just kind of 'prepare' your Tama for evolution quickly and then just ride it out. Like in the Paradise, I usually get all the evolutionary requirements quickly after it evolves out of being a baby, and then just take normal care of it until it reaches adulthood and it will take the path I want, without ever having to worry about meeting any more requirements.
With Digital Monster, you really have to keep on top of them at each stage, as well as even plan ahead when you hatch your egg, I guess!
And it's an even more stark contrast to the Paradise in that there's a lot more than just care mistakes to worry about. Paradise does have the whole diet thing, but you can fulfill the diet requirement immediately once they are out of the baby phase, and as long as you don't give them any special dietary foods after that, they will always maintain that. And then only the 'perfect' evolutions require you to fill the bars a certain number of times.
But Digital Monster Color has care mistakes, training, overfeeding, sleep disruption, and battling that all contribute to evolution pathing, and there are other stats/conditions (injury and protein overdose) that can also affect how they battle or if they outright die on you before evolving. So there are a lot more things to worry about. Plus the Digimon can evolve up to 6 times total, with 4 of those evolutionary stages requiring you to fulfill certain conditions in a certain time frame, none of which can be fulfilled in a previous phase of evolution.
Right now I have my little Piyomon and I decide I'm going to go for Cockatrimon, as you can only get Cockatrimon from Piyomon, and it's one of the 'make 4+ mistakes' ones, so it's a little harder to get.
I also have to overfeed it twice (I've done one already) and disturb its sleep twice. I'm pretty sure you can disturb sleep as many times in a normal night/sleep cycle as you want, so I should be able to get both tonight. Plus Piyomon evolves after 24 hours, so it will always only ever go through one night of sleeping anyway. So I guess it must work that way.
I also have to get between 5 and 24 training sessions in, which you can do these unlimitedly and it still counts toward the requirement even if you fail, but I did make sure to get 5 successes, just in case, and I did fail 3 times, so 8 total. So I should be good on that.
So I guess really I don't have to worry about TOO much other than to keep accumulating care mistakes, and to make sure to overfeed one more time. But that's still more than the Paradise, and I have to watch this kind of stuff during each evolution. Actually I think it's really only from seichoki to seijukuki that you have to worry about the sleep disturbance and overfeeding and training. The other stages are all just care mistakes and battles, though battles can be affected by training and protein overdose, and you can die from too many injuries (which can come from battles or... poop... injury by poop...)
Either way, still more maintenance and attention to stats than Tamagotchi Paradise or really most other Tamagotchis.
Digital Monster Color Checklist
Aug. 6th, 2026 10:50 pmVer. 1
幼年期 Ⅰ
幼年期 ⅠⅠ
成長期
成熟期
完全体
究極体
超究極体
Ver. 2
幼年期 Ⅰ
幼年期 ⅠⅠ
成長期
成熟期
完全体
究極体
超究極体
Ver. 3
幼年期 Ⅰ
幼年期 ⅠⅠ
成長期
成熟期
完全体
究極体
超究極体
Ver. 4
幼年期 Ⅰ
幼年期 ⅠⅠ
成長期
成熟期
完全体
究極体
超究極体
Ver. 5
幼年期 Ⅰ
幼年期 ⅠⅠ
成長期
成熟期
完全体
究極体
超究極体
Language learning stuff
Aug. 4th, 2026 09:48 pmSo my mother and I are going to be trying to learn German together, which is fun, so I'm basically just going to compile a bunch of knowledge I have gained about learning language in general that can be applied to any language. I am pretty proficient in Japanese, and in the past had decent skill in Korean and Spanish, but I've basically lost all of those. I've also taught myself some early levels of Arabic and Chinese which are considered super hard... so I do have a decent amount of experience in learning, and figuring out what works for me, and learning what works for other people in the process of discovery. I also have a BA in linguistics with an interest in language pedagogy so hopefully I know a bit about this hahaha.
This is mostly a reference for self-study, but honestly, as I'll explain a little bit in here, formal study is basically just self-study with a little more help, and if you only go by your class and homework, you'll get nowhere, so you really need to consider all of this stuff anyway.
Also note this is all written assuming you want to reach some level of usable proficiency. Like watching a movie and knowing what's going on, or carrying on a conversation with someone where you understand what they are saying and can respond with your own actual thoughts and opinions based on the situation.
If you don't want to reach a proficient level where you can communicate in a variety of forms and understand a variety of things, that's cool, you can just play around in an app or read a book and treat it more like a collection of fun facts and party tricks, and that's completely valid. Not everyone needs to go hard and work toward fluency. It's fine to just enjoy learning a little bit about how another language works and experiencing a little bit of culture while you're at it. That's still better than just ignoring other cultures and languages completely because usable proficiency seems too difficult to reach. Because, well, it is VERY difficult to reach. Even still, I do advise even if you don't plan on ever 'getting there,' understanding the concepts here can be very helpful even for just having fun with learning some basic stuff.
This post is LONG (no need to read it all at once), but the basics of what it covers are these core elements of language learning:
And within each section I will detail what I mean by those things, and some basic strategies that are common to use to obtain those things. Then later I'm going to talk about how to get started and some common pitfalls to try to avoid.
Language learning is difficult. It's going to be hard, you're going to make tons of mistakes, you're going to develop bad habits and have to unlearn them, you're going to get frustrated and want to give up, you're going to notice your progress feeling slower as you move on, and all of this is going to take years. This post is hopefully going to help in minimizing the mistakes and frustrations and help with direction, but it by no means will work to eliminate those difficulties.
If I can give any one piece of advice, it's just that it's okay to struggle.
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This is mostly a reference for self-study, but honestly, as I'll explain a little bit in here, formal study is basically just self-study with a little more help, and if you only go by your class and homework, you'll get nowhere, so you really need to consider all of this stuff anyway.
Also note this is all written assuming you want to reach some level of usable proficiency. Like watching a movie and knowing what's going on, or carrying on a conversation with someone where you understand what they are saying and can respond with your own actual thoughts and opinions based on the situation.
If you don't want to reach a proficient level where you can communicate in a variety of forms and understand a variety of things, that's cool, you can just play around in an app or read a book and treat it more like a collection of fun facts and party tricks, and that's completely valid. Not everyone needs to go hard and work toward fluency. It's fine to just enjoy learning a little bit about how another language works and experiencing a little bit of culture while you're at it. That's still better than just ignoring other cultures and languages completely because usable proficiency seems too difficult to reach. Because, well, it is VERY difficult to reach. Even still, I do advise even if you don't plan on ever 'getting there,' understanding the concepts here can be very helpful even for just having fun with learning some basic stuff.
This post is LONG (no need to read it all at once), but the basics of what it covers are these core elements of language learning:
- Do not translate. In your head or to others or whatever. Like ever.
- Get tons of input, as much as possible, starting right away.
- Learn core vocabulary based on frequently used words.
- Learn grammar and practice it to internalize it.
And within each section I will detail what I mean by those things, and some basic strategies that are common to use to obtain those things. Then later I'm going to talk about how to get started and some common pitfalls to try to avoid.
Language learning is difficult. It's going to be hard, you're going to make tons of mistakes, you're going to develop bad habits and have to unlearn them, you're going to get frustrated and want to give up, you're going to notice your progress feeling slower as you move on, and all of this is going to take years. This post is hopefully going to help in minimizing the mistakes and frustrations and help with direction, but it by no means will work to eliminate those difficulties.
If I can give any one piece of advice, it's just that it's okay to struggle.
( Read more... )
